diff --git a/components/gcp/container/component_sdk/python/run_test.sh b/components/gcp/container/component_sdk/python/run_test.sh
index 598ac42ebc7..977cd5ed49a 100755
--- a/components/gcp/container/component_sdk/python/run_test.sh
+++ b/components/gcp/container/component_sdk/python/run_test.sh
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-pip install -U tox virtualenv
-tox "$@"
\ No newline at end of file
+# six>=1.12.0 is required by virtualenv
+pip install -U six>=1.12.0 tox virtualenv
+tox "$@"
diff --git a/sdk/python/requirements.txt b/sdk/python/requirements.txt
index b2b1daed90e..4456c635c2d 100644
--- a/sdk/python/requirements.txt
+++ b/sdk/python/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 urllib3>=1.15,<1.25 #Fixing the version conflict with the "requests" package caused by the kubernetes package
-six>=1.10
+six>=1.12
 certifi
 python-dateutil
 PyYAML