diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0e18940f5..e818c6b12 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4894,9 +4894,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-util"
-version = "0.7.8"
+version = "0.7.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "806fe8c2c87eccc8b3267cbae29ed3ab2d0bd37fca70ab622e46aaa9375ddb7d"
+checksum = "1d68074620f57a0b21594d9735eb2e98ab38b17f80d3fcb189fca266771ca60d"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-core",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 229451cf5..60eded7ed 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ tokio = { version = "1", features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 tokio-io-timeout = "1.2.0"
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1.14", features = ["fs"] }
 tokio-tar = { version = "0.3" } # TODO: integrate tokio into async-tar
-tokio-util = "0.7.8"
+tokio-util = "0.7.9"
 toml = "0.7"
 trust-dns-resolver = "0.23"
 url = "2"
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
index 13cdf7ce7..994d5e963 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ log = "0.4"
 serde_json = "1.0.105"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.32.0", features = ["io-std"] }
-tokio-util = "0.7.8"
+tokio-util = "0.7.9"
 yerpc = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }
 
 [features]