diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 627ae7c1743..3b28ca0d846 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3019,9 +3019,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "reqwest"
-version = "0.11.18"
+version = "0.11.20"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cde824a14b7c14f85caff81225f411faacc04a2013f41670f41443742b1c1c55"
+checksum = "3e9ad3fe7488d7e34558a2033d45a0c90b72d97b4f80705666fea71472e2e6a1"
 dependencies = [
  "base64",
  "bytes",
@@ -3206,9 +3206,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustls"
-version = "0.21.5"
+version = "0.21.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "79ea77c539259495ce8ca47f53e66ae0330a8819f67e23ac96ca02f50e7b7d36"
+checksum = "cd8d6c9f025a446bc4d18ad9632e69aec8f287aa84499ee335599fabd20c3fd8"
 dependencies = [
  "log",
  "ring",
@@ -4470,24 +4470,11 @@ dependencies = [
  "wasm-bindgen",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "webpki"
-version = "0.22.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f0e74f82d49d545ad128049b7e88f6576df2da6b02e9ce565c6f533be576957e"
-dependencies = [
- "ring",
- "untrusted",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "webpki-roots"
-version = "0.22.6"
+version = "0.25.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b6c71e40d7d2c34a5106301fb632274ca37242cd0c9d3e64dbece371a40a2d87"
-dependencies = [
- "webpki",
-]
+checksum = "14247bb57be4f377dfb94c72830b8ce8fc6beac03cf4bf7b9732eadd414123fc"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "winapi"
@@ -4649,11 +4636,12 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "winreg"
-version = "0.10.1"
+version = "0.50.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "80d0f4e272c85def139476380b12f9ac60926689dd2e01d4923222f40580869d"
+checksum = "524e57b2c537c0f9b1e69f1965311ec12182b4122e45035b1508cd24d2adadb1"
 dependencies = [
- "winapi",
+ "cfg-if",
+ "windows-sys 0.48.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/acvm-repo/barretenberg_blackbox_solver/Cargo.toml b/acvm-repo/barretenberg_blackbox_solver/Cargo.toml
index bbbd6649c47..c595def2902 100644
--- a/acvm-repo/barretenberg_blackbox_solver/Cargo.toml
+++ b/acvm-repo/barretenberg_blackbox_solver/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ wasmer = "3.3"
 pkg-config = "0.3"
 tar = "~0.4.15"
 flate2 = "~1.0.1"
-reqwest = { version = "0.11.16", default-features = false, features = [
+reqwest = { version = "0.11.20", default-features = false, features = [
     "rustls-tls",
     "blocking",
 ] }
diff --git a/tooling/backend_interface/Cargo.toml b/tooling/backend_interface/Cargo.toml
index 986cb502048..587dcf41005 100644
--- a/tooling/backend_interface/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tooling/backend_interface/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ tempfile = "3.6.0"
 ## bb binary downloading
 tar = "~0.4.15"
 flate2 = "~1.0.1"
-reqwest = { version = "0.11.16", default-features = false, features = [
+reqwest = { version = "0.11.20", default-features = false, features = [
     "rustls-tls",
     "blocking",
 ] }