diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 359549fe6..dfad35a7d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1138,9 +1138,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_json"
-version = "1.0.60"
+version = "1.0.61"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1500e84d27fe482ed1dc791a56eddc2f230046a040fa908c08bda1d9fb615779"
+checksum = "4fceb2595057b6891a4ee808f70054bd2d12f0e97f1cbb78689b59f676df325a"
 dependencies = [
  "itoa",
  "ryu",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4a1f50a2b..3d4880d90 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ libc = "0.2.81"
 log = { version = "0.4.11", features = ["std"] }
 option_parser = { path = "option_parser" }
 seccomp = { git = "https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker", tag = "v0.22.0" }
-serde_json = "1.0.60"
+serde_json = "1.0.61"
 thiserror = "1.0"
 vmm = { path = "vmm" }
 vmm-sys-util = "0.7.0"
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ credibility = "0.1.3"
 tempdir = "0.3.7"
 lazy_static= "1.4.0"
 tempfile = "3.1.0"
-serde_json = "1.0.60"
+serde_json = "1.0.61"
 net_util = { path = "net_util" }
 
 [features]
diff --git a/net_util/Cargo.toml b/net_util/Cargo.toml
index 5a2db5690..c1e9a9637 100644
--- a/net_util/Cargo.toml
+++ b/net_util/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ vmm-sys-util = ">=0.3.1"
 [dev-dependencies]
 lazy_static = "1.3.0"
 pnet = "0.27.2"
-serde_json = "1.0.60"
+serde_json = "1.0.61"