diff --git a/package/python-kiwi-spec-template b/package/python-kiwi-spec-template
index c4a179a6729..d5ccf10e7ab 100644
--- a/package/python-kiwi-spec-template
+++ b/package/python-kiwi-spec-template
@@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ Requires:       python%{python3_pkgversion}-docopt
 Requires:       python%{python3_pkgversion}-lxml
 Requires:       python%{python3_pkgversion}-requests
 Requires:       python%{python3_pkgversion}-setuptools
+Requires:       python%{python3_pkgversion}-xmltodict
 %if 0%{?rhel} || 0%{?fedora}
 Requires:       (python%{python3_pkgversion}-typing-extensions if python%{python3_pkgversion} < 3.8)
 %endif