diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 92801656..dc49e5d5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1353,7 +1353,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-tungstenite",
- "tokio-util 0.7.1",
+ "tokio-util 0.7.2",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-futures",
  "url",
@@ -3912,9 +3912,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-util"
-version = "0.7.1"
+version = "0.7.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0edfdeb067411dba2044da6d1cb2df793dd35add7888d73c16e3381ded401764"
+checksum = "f988a1a1adc2fb21f9c12aa96441da33a1728193ae0b95d2be22dbd17fcb4e5c"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-core",
diff --git a/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml b/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml
index 4d2c6adc..abbb3fa7 100644
--- a/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ hashers = "1.0.1"
 
 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
 # tokio
-tokio-util = { version = "0.7.1", default-features = false, features = ["io"], optional = true }
+tokio-util = { version = "0.7.2", default-features = false, features = ["io"], optional = true }
 tokio = { version = "1.5", default-features = false, optional = true }
 tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.17.1", default-features = false, features = ["connect"], optional = true }