diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 24bf24907..2ea79a5ee 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -898,9 +898,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde"
-version = "1.0.125"
+version = "1.0.126"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "558dc50e1a5a5fa7112ca2ce4effcb321b0300c0d4ccf0776a9f60cd89031171"
+checksum = "ec7505abeacaec74ae4778d9d9328fe5a5d04253220a85c4ee022239fc996d03"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_derive"
diff --git a/net_util/Cargo.toml b/net_util/Cargo.toml
index 2448b2832..7573ded33 100644
--- a/net_util/Cargo.toml
+++ b/net_util/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ libc = "0.2.94"
 log = "0.4.14"
 net_gen = { path = "../net_gen" }
 rate_limiter = { path = "../rate_limiter" }
-serde = "1.0.125"
+serde = "1.0.126"
 virtio-bindings = "0.1.0"
 vm-memory = { version = "0.5.0", features = ["backend-mmap", "backend-atomic"] }
 vm-virtio = { path = "../vm-virtio" }