diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8dd0b4c850f..f792f2c71e3 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2675,9 +2675,9 @@ checksum = "624a8340c38c1b80fd549087862da4ba43e08858af025b236e509b6649fc13d5"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "openssl"
-version = "0.10.40"
+version = "0.10.44"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "fb81a6430ac911acb25fe5ac8f1d2af1b4ea8a4fdfda0f1ee4292af2e2d8eb0e"
+checksum = "29d971fd5722fec23977260f6e81aa67d2f22cadbdc2aa049f1022d9a3be1566"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
  "cfg-if 1.0.0",
@@ -2707,9 +2707,9 @@ checksum = "28988d872ab76095a6e6ac88d99b54fd267702734fd7ffe610ca27f533ddb95a"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "openssl-sys"
-version = "0.9.73"
+version = "0.9.79"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9d5fd19fb3e0a8191c1e34935718976a3e70c112ab9a24af6d7cadccd9d90bc0"
+checksum = "5454462c0eced1e97f2ec09036abc8da362e66802f66fd20f86854d9d8cbcbc4"
 dependencies = [
  "autocfg",
  "cc",
diff --git a/store/postgres/Cargo.toml b/store/postgres/Cargo.toml
index 6e838f3b8b7..af84ed9b8ab 100644
--- a/store/postgres/Cargo.toml
+++ b/store/postgres/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ lazy_static = "1.1"
 lru_time_cache = "0.11"
 maybe-owned = "0.3.4"
 postgres = "0.19.1"
-openssl = "0.10.40"
+openssl = "0.10.44"
 postgres-openssl = "0.5.0"
 rand = "0.8.4"
 serde = "1.0"