diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ee06b62eb..b503b60d5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3208,9 +3208,9 @@ checksum = "504a2476202769977a040c6364301a3f65d0cc9e3fb08600b2bda150a0488316"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xattr"
-version = "0.2.2"
+version = "0.2.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "244c3741f4240ef46274860397c7c74e50eb23624996930e484c16679633a54c"
+checksum = "6d1526bbe5aaeb5eb06885f4d987bcdfa5e23187055de9b83fe00156a821fabc"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
diff --git a/src/uu/cp/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/cp/Cargo.toml
index f9036101a..3f3c2e317 100644
--- a/src/uu/cp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/cp/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ioctl-sys = "0.8"
 winapi = { version="0.3", features=["fileapi"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
-xattr="0.2.1"
+xattr="0.2.3"
 exacl= { version = "0.8.0", optional=true }
 
 [[bin]]