diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 36fd22e667..b46743959f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1985,9 +1985,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "regex"
-version = "1.7.0"
+version = "1.7.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e076559ef8e241f2ae3479e36f97bd5741c0330689e217ad51ce2c76808b868a"
+checksum = "48aaa5748ba571fb95cd2c85c09f629215d3a6ece942baa100950af03a34f733"
 dependencies = [
  "aho-corasick",
  "memchr",
diff --git a/tests/test-framework/Cargo.toml b/tests/test-framework/Cargo.toml
index 4669225f29..2e9e01c396 100644
--- a/tests/test-framework/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tests/test-framework/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ version = "0.8"
 version = "2.3"
 
 [dependencies.regex]
-version = "1.6"
+version = "1.7"
 
 [dev-dependencies.leo-compiler]
 path = "../../compiler/compiler"