diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5bf70e73..c17365c2 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -133,9 +133,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "async-trait"
-version = "0.1.79"
+version = "0.1.81"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a507401cad91ec6a857ed5513a2073c82a9b9048762b885bb98655b306964681"
+checksum = "6e0c28dcc82d7c8ead5cb13beb15405b57b8546e93215673ff8ca0349a028107"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index fda85009..d8d8a12d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ authors = ["DaSCH - Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities"]
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
 anyhow = "1"
-async-trait = "0.1.68"
+async-trait = "0.1.81"
 axum = "0.7.2" # web framework
 axum-macros = "0.4.0"
 clap = { version = "4.5.4", features = ["derive"] } # command-line parser