diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 72861b5..73fe30c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1396,9 +1396,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_json"
-version = "1.0.132"
+version = "1.0.140"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d726bfaff4b320266d395898905d0eba0345aae23b54aee3a737e260fd46db03"
+checksum = "20068b6e96dc6c9bd23e01df8827e6c7e1f2fddd43c21810382803c136b99373"
 dependencies = [
  "itoa",
  "memchr",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a5f7341..26edf9e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ rand_xoshiro = "0.6.0"
 rayon = "1.8.1"
 rust-htslib = "0.46.0"
 serde = "1.0.197"
-serde_json = "1.0.114"
+serde_json = "1.0.140"
 slog = "2.7.0"
 slog-async = "2.8.0"
 slog-scope = "4.4.0"