diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3904277da38..1eb4a16c101 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -696,9 +696,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "data-encoding"
-version = "2.3.2"
+version = "2.3.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3ee2393c4a91429dffb4bedf19f4d6abf27d8a732c8ce4980305d782e5426d57"
+checksum = "23d8666cb01533c39dde32bcbab8e227b4ed6679b2c925eba05feabea39508fb"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "data-encoding-macro"
diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index fa1c1d74b3c..64c6272b69d 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ itertools = { version="0.10.0", optional=true }
 thiserror = { version="1.0", optional=true }
 time = { version="0.3", optional=true, features = ["formatting", "local-offset", "macros"] }
 # * "problem" dependencies (pinned)
-data-encoding = { version="2.1", optional=true }
+data-encoding = { version="2.3", optional=true }
 data-encoding-macro = { version="0.1.12", optional=true }
 z85 = { version="3.0.5", optional=true }
 libc = { version="0.2.137", optional=true }