diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6d97e6376..3b9bbe58f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1123,9 +1123,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde"
-version = "1.0.116"
+version = "1.0.117"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "96fe57af81d28386a513cbc6858332abc6117cfdb5999647c6444b8f43a370a5"
+checksum = "b88fa983de7720629c9387e9f517353ed404164b1e482c970a90c1a4aaf7dc1a"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_derive"
diff --git a/net_util/Cargo.toml b/net_util/Cargo.toml
index e3214de87..d85e5c3b0 100644
--- a/net_util/Cargo.toml
+++ b/net_util/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ libc = "0.2.79"
 log = "0.4.11"
 net_gen = { path = "../net_gen" }
 rand = "0.7.3"
-serde = "1.0.116"
+serde = "1.0.117"
 virtio-bindings = "0.1.0"
 vm-memory = { version = "0.3.0", features = ["backend-mmap", "backend-atomic"] }
 vm-virtio = { path = "../vm-virtio" }