diff --git a/python/pyproject.toml b/python/pyproject.toml
index 99d6e41713d..63119dd1998 100644
--- a/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dependencies = ["requests", "tqdm", "numpy", "IPython"]
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 runtime_common = ["aiohttp", "decord", "fastapi", "hf_transfer", "huggingface_hub", "interegular",
     "orjson", "packaging", "pillow", "prometheus-client>=0.20.0", "psutil", "pydantic", "python-multipart",
-    "torchao", "uvicorn", "uvloop", "zmq",
+    "torchao", "uvicorn", "uvloop", "zmq>=25.1.2",
     "outlines>=0.0.44", "modelscope"]
 srt = ["sglang[runtime_common]", "torch", "vllm==0.6.3.post1"]