diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index bdfc36d2461..b191c36efba 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1286,9 +1286,9 @@ checksum = "b8f8bdf33df195859076e54ab11ee78a1b208382d3a26ec40d142ffc1ecc49ef"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "once_cell"
-version = "1.11.0"
+version = "1.12.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7b10983b38c53aebdf33f542c6275b0f58a238129d00c4ae0e6fb59738d783ca"
+checksum = "7709cef83f0c1f58f666e746a08b21e0085f7440fa6a29cc194d68aac97a4225"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "onig"
diff --git a/src/uu/ls/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/ls/Cargo.toml
index 5be5e993c77..49254cf8de7 100644
--- a/src/uu/ls/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/ls/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ termsize = "0.1.6"
 glob = "0.3.0"
 lscolors = { version = "0.10.0", features = ["ansi_term"] }
 uucore = { version = ">=0.0.8", package = "uucore", path = "../../uucore", features = ["entries", "fs"] }
-once_cell = "1.10.0"
+once_cell = "1.12.0"
 atty = "0.2"
 selinux = { version="0.2", optional = true }
 
diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index e382193778b..961bcbb203d 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ data-encoding = { version="2.1", optional=true }
 data-encoding-macro = { version="0.1.12", optional=true }
 z85 = { version="3.0.5", optional=true }
 libc = { version="0.2.126", optional=true }
-once_cell = "1.10.0"
+once_cell = "1.12.0"
 os_display = "0.1.3"
 
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]