diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5aed5702ca..3c83ec5186 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -7550,9 +7550,9 @@ checksum = "55937e1799185b12863d447f42597ed69d9928686b8d88a1df17376a097d8369"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tar"
-version = "0.4.45"
+version = "0.4.46"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "22692a6476a21fa75fdfc11d452fda482af402c008cdbaf3476414e122040973"
+checksum = "3f6221d9a6003c78398e3b239969f352578258df48c8eb051caadae0015bc840"
 dependencies = [
  "filetime",
  "libc",
diff --git a/src/tools/genpolicy/Cargo.toml b/src/tools/genpolicy/Cargo.toml
index 184794fd8e..395e4d177b 100644
--- a/src/tools/genpolicy/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/tools/genpolicy/Cargo.toml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ tower = "0.4.13"
 containerd-client = "0.4.0"
 
 # username to UID:GID mapping support
-tar = "0.4.45"
+tar = "0.4.46"
 
 # init data support
 kata-types = { path = "../../libs/kata-types" } # TODO(burgerdev): figure out how to use this from workspace without including safe-path.
diff --git a/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/binary/Cargo.toml b/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/binary/Cargo.toml
index 075c027349..e8753922ce 100644
--- a/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/binary/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/binary/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ log.workspace = true
 regex.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
 serde_yaml = "0.9"
-tar = "0.4.45"
+tar = "0.4.46"
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = [
     "rt-multi-thread",
     "macros",