diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 84dc6740c0..9689f75856 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.7.0",
  "tonic 0.4.3",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-appender 0.1.2",
@@ -1930,7 +1930,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "indexmap",
  "slab",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tracing",
 ]
 
@@ -2389,7 +2389,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "time 0.3.7",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.7.0",
  "tonic 0.6.2",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-appender 0.2.0",
@@ -4856,7 +4856,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4877,6 +4877,20 @@ name = "tokio-util"
 version = "0.6.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9e99e1983e5d376cd8eb4b66604d2e99e79f5bd988c3055891dcd8c9e2604cc0"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "log",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-util"
+version = "0.7.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "64910e1b9c1901aaf5375561e35b9c057d95ff41a44ede043a03e09279eabaf1"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-core",
@@ -4918,7 +4932,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "prost-derive 0.7.0",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tower",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
@@ -4948,7 +4962,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "prost-derive 0.9.0",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tower",
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
@@ -4983,7 +4997,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "slab",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
@@ -5080,7 +5094,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tracing-core",
  "tracing-futures",
  "tracing-subscriber 0.2.25",
@@ -5099,7 +5113,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tracing-core",
  "tracing-futures",
  "tracing-subscriber 0.3.7",
@@ -5457,7 +5471,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-rustls 0.22.0",
  "tokio-stream",
  "tokio-tungstenite",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
 ]
diff --git a/explorer/Cargo.toml b/explorer/Cargo.toml
index 86547c5cdb..a5c713e7b0 100644
--- a/explorer/Cargo.toml
+++ b/explorer/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.2", features = ["fmt", "json"] }
 tracing-appender = "0.1.2"
 tokio = { version = "^1.4", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "time", "sync", "rt", "signal", "test-util"] }
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1.4", features = ["sync"] }
-tokio-util = { version = "0.6.0", features = ["time"] }
+tokio-util = { version = "0.7.0", features = ["time"] }
 tonic = "0.4"
 multiaddr = { package = "parity-multiaddr", version = "0.11" }
 rand = "0.8.3"
diff --git a/jormungandr/Cargo.toml b/jormungandr/Cargo.toml
index 512f38b4bb..52d97496ba 100644
--- a/jormungandr/Cargo.toml
+++ b/jormungandr/Cargo.toml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["fmt", "json", "time"] }
 tracing-appender = "0.2"
 tokio = { version = "^1.15", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "time", "sync", "rt", "signal", "test-util"] }
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1.4", features = ["sync"] }
-tokio-util = { version = "0.6.0", features = ["time"] }
+tokio-util = { version = "0.7.0", features = ["time"] }
 tonic = "0.6"
 lru = "0.7"
 warp = { version = "0.3.2", features = ["tls"] }