diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b0d6db609..4a5c18627 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -710,9 +710,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "data-encoding"
-version = "2.5.0"
+version = "2.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7e962a19be5cfc3f3bf6dd8f61eb50107f356ad6270fbb3ed41476571db78be5"
+checksum = "e8566979429cf69b49a5c740c60791108e86440e8be149bbea4fe54d2c32d6e2"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "data-encoding-macro"
diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index b13903bc6..ed2b66fe5 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ time = { workspace = true, optional = true, features = [
   "macros",
 ] }
 # * "problem" dependencies (pinned)
-data-encoding = { version = "2.5", optional = true }
+data-encoding = { version = "2.6", optional = true }
 data-encoding-macro = { version = "0.1.14", optional = true }
 z85 = { version = "3.0.5", optional = true }
 libc = { workspace = true, optional = true }