diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/setup.py b/metadata-ingestion/setup.py
index cb1ac82f8c..5e7f3aae6a 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/setup.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/setup.py
@@ -465,7 +465,11 @@ plugins: Dict[str, Set[str]] = {
     "lookml": looker_common,
     "metabase": {"requests"} | sqlglot_lib,
     "mlflow": {
-        "mlflow-skinny>=2.3.0",
+        "mlflow-skinny>=2.3.0,<2.21.0",
+        # Pinned to avoid the breaking change introduced in MLflow 2.21.0 where search_registered_models injects an implicit filter
+        # https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/pull/14795
+        # Upper bound can be removed once the upstream issue is resolved,
+        # or we have a reliable and backward-compatible way to handle prompt filtering.
         # It's technically wrong for packages to depend on setuptools. However, it seems mlflow does it anyways.
         "setuptools",
     },