diff --git a/requirements-docs.txt b/requirements-docs.txt
index 29a5368e3317..26ae924feb8b 100644
--- a/requirements-docs.txt
+++ b/requirements-docs.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Jinja2<3.1.0
-docutils>=0.18.1,<=0.19
+docutils<=0.23,>=0.23
 Sphinx==6.2
 -e .
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 41be907f4888..a040aa7e7346 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def find_version(*file_paths):
 
 install_requires = [
     'botocore==1.40.53',
-    'docutils>=0.18.1,<=0.19',
+    'docutils>=0.18.1,<=0.23',
     's3transfer>=0.14.0,<0.15.0',
     'PyYAML>=3.10,<6.1',
     'colorama>=0.2.5,<0.4.7',