diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b3ff08e5..6314b14a 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -141,18 +141,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "auto_impl"
-version = "0.5.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7862e21c893d65a1650125d157eaeec691439379a1cee17ee49031b79236ada4"
-dependencies = [
- "proc-macro-error",
- "proc-macro2",
- "quote",
- "syn",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "auto_impl"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -1471,7 +1459,7 @@ name = "ethers-middleware"
 version = "1.0.2"
 dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
- "auto_impl 0.5.0",
+ "auto_impl",
  "ethers-contract",
  "ethers-core",
  "ethers-etherscan",
@@ -1500,7 +1488,7 @@ name = "ethers-providers"
 version = "1.0.2"
 dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
- "auto_impl 1.0.1",
+ "auto_impl",
  "base64 0.21.0",
  "bytes",
  "enr",
@@ -2744,7 +2732,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "786393f80485445794f6043fd3138854dd109cc6c4bd1a6383db304c9ce9b9ce"
 dependencies = [
  "arrayvec 0.7.2",
- "auto_impl 1.0.1",
+ "auto_impl",
  "bytes",
  "ethereum-types",
  "open-fastrlp-derive",
diff --git a/ethers-middleware/Cargo.toml b/ethers-middleware/Cargo.toml
index 714e01ff..6cb746a5 100644
--- a/ethers-middleware/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ethers-middleware/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ ethers-providers = { version = "^1.0.0", path = "../ethers-providers", default-f
 ethers-signers = { version = "^1.0.0", path = "../ethers-signers", default-features = false }
 
 async-trait = { version = "0.1.50", default-features = false }
-auto_impl = { version = "0.5.0", default-features = false }
+auto_impl = { version = "1.0.1", default-features = false }
 serde = { version = "1.0.124", default-features = false, features = ["derive"] }
 thiserror = { version = "1.0", default-features = false }
 futures-util = { version = "^0.3" }