diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ba2b74df..80689e68 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2,15 +2,6 @@
 # It is not intended for manual editing.
 version = 3
 
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-name = "ansi_term"
-version = "0.11.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ee49baf6cb617b853aa8d93bf420db2383fab46d314482ca2803b40d5fde979b"
-dependencies = [
- "winapi",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "api"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -39,6 +30,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "autocfg"
+version = "1.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d468802bab17cbc0cc575e9b053f41e72aa36bfa6b7f55e3529ffa43161b97fa"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bitflags"
 version = "1.2.1"
@@ -53,17 +50,26 @@ checksum = "4785bdd1c96b2a846b2bd7cc02e86b6b3dbf14e7e53446c4f54c92a361040822"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "clap"
-version = "2.33.3"
+version = "3.2.17"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "37e58ac78573c40708d45522f0d80fa2f01cc4f9b4e2bf749807255454312002"
+checksum = "29e724a68d9319343bb3328c9cc2dfde263f4b3142ee1059a9980580171c954b"
 dependencies = [
- "ansi_term",
  "atty",
  "bitflags",
+ "clap_lex",
+ "indexmap",
  "strsim",
+ "termcolor",
  "textwrap",
- "unicode-width",
- "vec_map",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "clap_lex"
+version = "0.2.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2850f2f5a82cbf437dd5af4d49848fbdfc27c157c3d010345776f952765261c5"
+dependencies = [
+ "os_str_bytes",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -96,6 +102,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "vmm-sys-util",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "hashbrown"
+version = "0.12.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8a9ee70c43aaf417c914396645a0fa852624801b24ebb7ae78fe8272889ac888"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hermit-abi"
 version = "0.1.17"
@@ -105,6 +117,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "indexmap"
+version = "1.9.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "10a35a97730320ffe8e2d410b5d3b69279b98d2c14bdb8b70ea89ecf7888d41e"
+dependencies = [
+ "autocfg",
+ "hashbrown",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "kvm-bindings"
 version = "0.5.0"
@@ -148,6 +170,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "os_str_bytes"
+version = "6.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9ff7415e9ae3fff1225851df9e0d9e4e5479f947619774677a63572e55e80eff"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro2"
 version = "1.0.34"
@@ -168,9 +196,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "strsim"
-version = "0.8.0"
+version = "0.10.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8ea5119cdb4c55b55d432abb513a0429384878c15dde60cc77b1c99de1a95a6a"
+checksum = "73473c0e59e6d5812c5dfe2a064a6444949f089e20eec9a2e5506596494e4623"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
@@ -184,14 +212,20 @@ dependencies = [
 ]
 
 [[package]]
-name = "textwrap"
-version = "0.11.0"
+name = "termcolor"
+version = "1.1.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d326610f408c7a4eb6f51c37c330e496b08506c9457c9d34287ecc38809fb060"
+checksum = "bab24d30b911b2376f3a13cc2cd443142f0c81dda04c118693e35b3835757755"
 dependencies = [
- "unicode-width",
+ "winapi-util",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "textwrap"
+version = "0.15.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b1141d4d61095b28419e22cb0bbf02755f5e54e0526f97f1e3d1d160e60885fb"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror"
 version = "1.0.30"
@@ -212,12 +246,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "unicode-width"
-version = "0.1.8"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9337591893a19b88d8d87f2cec1e73fad5cdfd10e5a6f349f498ad6ea2ffb1e3"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-xid"
 version = "0.2.2"
@@ -228,12 +256,6 @@ checksum = "8ccb82d61f80a663efe1f787a51b16b5a51e3314d6ac365b08639f52387b33f3"
 name = "utils"
 version = "0.1.0"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "vec_map"
-version = "0.8.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f1bddf1187be692e79c5ffeab891132dfb0f236ed36a43c7ed39f1165ee20191"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "virtio-blk"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -387,6 +409,15 @@ version = "0.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ac3b87c63620426dd9b991e5ce0329eff545bccbbb34f3be09ff6fb6ab51b7b6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "winapi-util"
+version = "0.1.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "70ec6ce85bb158151cae5e5c87f95a8e97d2c0c4b001223f33a334e3ce5de178"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu"
 version = "0.4.0"
diff --git a/src/api/Cargo.toml b/src/api/Cargo.toml
index 1d8193b3..7bc3dc38 100644
--- a/src/api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/api/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ authors = ["rust-vmm AWS maintainers <rust-vmm-maintainers@amazon.com>"]
 edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
-clap = "2.33.3"
+clap = "3.2.17"
 
 vmm = { path = "../vmm" }