diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b26a45067..0e0b6059e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4998,9 +4998,9 @@ checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.36.0"
+version = "1.37.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "61285f6515fa018fb2d1e46eb21223fff441ee8db5d0f1435e8ab4f5cdb80931"
+checksum = "1adbebffeca75fcfd058afa480fb6c0b81e165a0323f9c9d39c9697e37c46787"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
index 15a0d4858..eba3561f6 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ futures = { version = "0.3.30" }
 serde_json = "1"
 yerpc = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }
 typescript-type-def = { version = "0.5.8", features = ["json_value"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.33.0" }
+tokio = { version = "1.37.0" }
 sanitize-filename = "0.5"
 walkdir = "2.5.0"
 base64 = "0.21"
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ axum = { version = "0.7", optional = true, features = ["ws"] }
 env_logger = { version = "0.10.0", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "1.33.0", features = ["full", "rt-multi-thread"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["full", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 
 
 [features]
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
index 1b6922e04..2d77d94e0 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ futures-lite = "2.2.0"
 log = "0.4"
 serde_json = "1"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.33.0", features = ["io-std"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["io-std"] }
 tokio-util = "0.7.9"
 yerpc = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }