diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index edf17c2c1..456f909ad 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -761,9 +761,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "data-encoding"
-version = "2.3.2"
+version = "2.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3ee2393c4a91429dffb4bedf19f4d6abf27d8a732c8ce4980305d782e5426d57"
+checksum = "c2e66c9d817f1720209181c316d28635c050fa304f9c79e47a520882661b7308"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "data-encoding-macro"
diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index 8693fbfc4..2ed0b8989 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ itertools = { version="0.10.5", optional=true }
 thiserror = { workspace=true, optional=true }
 time = { workspace=true, optional=true, features = ["formatting", "local-offset", "macros"] }
 # * "problem" dependencies (pinned)
-data-encoding = { version="2.3", optional=true }
+data-encoding = { version="2.4", optional=true }
 data-encoding-macro = { version="0.1.12", optional=true }
 z85 = { version="3.0.5", optional=true }
 libc = { version="0.2.144", optional=true }