diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 696306099..0e825cbb5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "api_client",
  "clap",
  "credibility",
- "dirs",
+ "dirs 4.0.0",
  "epoll",
  "event_monitor",
  "hypervisor",
@@ -279,6 +279,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "dirs-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "dirs"
+version = "4.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ca3aa72a6f96ea37bbc5aa912f6788242832f75369bdfdadcb0e38423f100059"
+dependencies = [
+ "dirs-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "dirs-sys"
 version = "0.3.6"
@@ -1037,7 +1046,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "test_infra"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
- "dirs",
+ "dirs 3.0.2",
  "epoll",
  "libc",
  "ssh2",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a3c9c09eb..7ee8ba072 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ versionize_derive = { git = "https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/versionize_deri
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 credibility = "0.1.3"
-dirs = "3.0.2"
+dirs = "4.0.0"
 lazy_static= "1.4.0"
 net_util = { path = "net_util" }
 serde_json = "1.0.68"