diff --git a/sonic-slave-bullseye/Dockerfile.j2 b/sonic-slave-bullseye/Dockerfile.j2
index fed55c0a898f..95dc04c04ff9 100644
--- a/sonic-slave-bullseye/Dockerfile.j2
+++ b/sonic-slave-bullseye/Dockerfile.j2
@@ -400,6 +400,11 @@ RUN pip3 install wheel==0.38.1
 # For building sonic-utilities
 RUN pip3 install fastentrypoints mock
 
+# For building sonic_ycabled
+# Note: upstream build breaks with old version of setuptools
+# ref: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/34569
+RUN pip3 install grpcio==1.58.0 grpcio-tools==1.58.0
+
 # For running Python unit tests
 RUN pip3 install pytest-runner==5.2
 RUN pip3 install nose==1.3.7