diff --git a/src/libs/kata-sys-util/Cargo.toml b/src/libs/kata-sys-util/Cargo.toml
index 81eeb4b648..7dc35d6c2c 100644
--- a/src/libs/kata-sys-util/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/libs/kata-sys-util/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ byteorder = "1.4.3"
 fail = "0.5.1"
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 libc = "0.2.100"
-nix = "0.26.4"
+nix = { workspace = true }
 serde = { version = "1.0.138", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.73"
 slog = "2.5.2"
diff --git a/src/libs/kata-types/Cargo.toml b/src/libs/kata-types/Cargo.toml
index e3cd01ea37..4c47ea9dba 100644
--- a/src/libs/kata-types/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/libs/kata-types/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ serde-enum-str = "0.5"
 sysinfo = "0.34.2"
 sha2 = "0.10.8"
 flate2 = "1.1"
-nix = "0.26.4"
+nix = { workspace = true }
 oci-spec = { version = "0.8.1", features = ["runtime"] }
 gpt = "4.1.0"
 scopeguard = "1.0.0"
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ sysctl = "0.7.1"
 [dev-dependencies]
 tempfile = "3.19.1"
 test-utils = { path = "../test-utils" }
-nix = "0.26.4"
+nix = { workspace = true }
 rstest = "0.18"
 
 [features]
diff --git a/src/libs/shim-interface/Cargo.toml b/src/libs/shim-interface/Cargo.toml
index cff3334072..f26b94db23 100644
--- a/src/libs/shim-interface/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/libs/shim-interface/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
 anyhow = "^1.0"
-nix = "0.26.4"
+nix = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { version = "1.44.2", features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
 hyper = { version = "0.14.20", features = ["stream", "server", "http1"] }
 hyperlocal = "0.8"
diff --git a/src/libs/test-utils/Cargo.toml b/src/libs/test-utils/Cargo.toml
index 6230f4f90b..0bfb133cc2 100644
--- a/src/libs/test-utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/libs/test-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ license = "Apache-2.0"
 edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
-nix = "0.26.4"
+nix = { workspace = true }
 libc = "0.2"