diff --git a/facilitator/Cargo.lock b/facilitator/Cargo.lock
index 6c6cfac92..806794cd0 100644
--- a/facilitator/Cargo.lock
+++ b/facilitator/Cargo.lock
@@ -2536,9 +2536,9 @@ checksum = "cda74da7e1a664f795bb1f8a87ec406fb89a02522cf6e50620d016add6dbbf5c"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.7.1"
+version = "1.8.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5fb2ed024293bb19f7a5dc54fe83bf86532a44c12a2bb8ba40d64a4509395ca2"
+checksum = "98c8b05dc14c75ea83d63dd391100353789f5f24b8b3866542a5e85c8be8e985"
 dependencies = [
  "autocfg",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/facilitator/Cargo.toml b/facilitator/Cargo.toml
index eb4c25e5a..f68047945 100644
--- a/facilitator/Cargo.toml
+++ b/facilitator/Cargo.toml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ serde = { version = "^1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 tempfile = "3.1.0"
 thiserror = "1.0"
-tokio = { version = "^1.7", features = ["full"] }
+tokio = { version = "^1.8", features = ["full"] }
 ureq = { version = "^2.1", features = ["json"] }
 url = "2.2.2"
 urlencoding = "2.0.0"