diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 80f1488ddbb..b1708e9a8ce 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4978,9 +4978,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "regex-syntax"
-version = "0.8.6"
+version = "0.8.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "caf4aa5b0f434c91fe5c7f1ecb6a5ece2130b02ad2a590589dda5146df959001"
+checksum = "7a2d987857b319362043e95f5353c0535c1f58eec5336fdfcf626430af7def58"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "reqwest"
diff --git a/crates/libafl/Cargo.toml b/crates/libafl/Cargo.toml
index 1e003a444af..b6d54a2eb03 100644
--- a/crates/libafl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/libafl/Cargo.toml
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ const_format = "0.2.33"                                       # used for providi
 const_panic = { version = "0.2.9", default-features = false } # similarly, for formatting const panic output
 
 pyo3 = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-regex-syntax = { version = "0.8.4", optional = true } # For nautilus
+regex-syntax = { version = "0.8.8", optional = true } # For nautilus
 
 fs2 = { workspace = true, optional = true } # used by OnDisk Corpus for file locking