diff --git a/base/Dockerfile b/base/Dockerfile
index a3fc30b7dc2c1d0fc85d3814065728c17779d2a1..630c1e36270058e31f41e47acce7bd32eb453fdd 100644
--- a/base/Dockerfile
+++ b/base/Dockerfile
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ RUN ln -s /mnt/user/shared /opt/app-root/src/shared
 
 ENV HOME=/opt/app-root/src/
 
+# temporarily downgrade pip to avoid failing build because of dependency conflicts (TODO: fix)
+RUN pip install pip==20.0.2
+
 # install pip packages
 COPY base/requirements.txt /tmp
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r /tmp/requirements.txt