diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index daf18dbb8..c1dfae0b1 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2823,9 +2823,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.43.0"
+version = "1.44.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3d61fa4ffa3de412bfea335c6ecff681de2b609ba3c77ef3e00e521813a9ed9e"
+checksum = "f382da615b842244d4b8738c82ed1275e6c5dd90c459a30941cd07080b06c91a"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml b/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
index 2d6530fb2..74337fc50 100644
--- a/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ opentelemetry = "0.28"
 opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.28", features = ["default", "grpc-tonic"] }
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = "0.28"
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.28", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.43.0", features = ["full"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.44.1", features = ["full"] }
 criterion = "0.5.1"
 tracing-chrome = "0.7.2"