diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4ab20cbb9..2301aa4e5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -987,9 +987,9 @@ checksum = "388a1df253eca08550bef6c72392cfe7c30914bf41df5269b68cbd6ff8f570a3"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde"
-version = "1.0.123"
+version = "1.0.124"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "92d5161132722baa40d802cc70b15262b98258453e85e5d1d365c757c73869ae"
+checksum = "bd761ff957cb2a45fbb9ab3da6512de9de55872866160b23c25f1a841e99d29f"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_derive"
diff --git a/net_util/Cargo.toml b/net_util/Cargo.toml
index 21ab711a3..f170ff309 100644
--- a/net_util/Cargo.toml
+++ b/net_util/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ epoll = ">=4.0.1"
 libc = "0.2.88"
 log = "0.4.14"
 net_gen = { path = "../net_gen" }
-serde = "1.0.123"
+serde = "1.0.124"
 virtio-bindings = "0.1.0"
 vm-memory = { version = "0.5.0", features = ["backend-mmap", "backend-atomic"] }
 vm-virtio = { path = "../vm-virtio" }