diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 7b77412964..88ecc0673e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4081,7 +4081,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "lazy_static",
  "maplit",
- "nix 0.30.1",
+ "nix 0.31.3",
  "once_cell",
  "page_size",
  "slog",
diff --git a/src/libs/mem-agent/Cargo.toml b/src/libs/mem-agent/Cargo.toml
index c909834da3..f8c869bf04 100644
--- a/src/libs/mem-agent/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/libs/mem-agent/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ page_size = "0.6"
 chrono = "0.4"
 tokio = { version = "1.45.1", features = ["full"] }
 maplit = "1.0"
-nix = { version = "0.30.1", features = ["fs", "sched"] }
+nix = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "sched"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 maplit = "1.0"
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ slog-term = "2.9.0"
 slog-async = "2.7"
 once_cell = "1.9.0"
 lazy_static = "1.4"
-nix = { version = "0.30.1", features = ["user"] }
+nix = { workspace = true, features = ["user"] }
 test-utils = { path = "../test-utils" }