diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b8ae2c8af7..c82e7a250d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5266,9 +5266,9 @@ checksum = "9d5b2c62b4012a3e1eca5a7e077d13b3bf498c4073e33ccd58626607748ceeca"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "walkdir"
-version = "2.3.3"
+version = "2.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "36df944cda56c7d8d8b7496af378e6b16de9284591917d307c9b4d313c44e698"
+checksum = "d71d857dc86794ca4c280d616f7da00d2dbfd8cd788846559a6813e6aa4b54ee"
 dependencies = [
  "same-file",
  "winapi-util",
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
index ec2900f090..b1d2b5b235 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ yerpc = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }
 typescript-type-def = { version = "0.5.8", features = ["json_value"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.32.0" }
 sanitize-filename = "0.5"
-walkdir = "2.3.3"
+walkdir = "2.4.0"
 base64 = "0.21"
 
 # optional dependencies