diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e80d207f6a955..f1a6e60f2880d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -11267,6 +11267,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rlimit",
  "thiserror-ext",
  "time",
+ "tokio",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-opentelemetry",
  "tracing-subscriber",
@@ -13827,9 +13828,9 @@ checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.37.0"
+version = "1.38.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1adbebffeca75fcfd058afa480fb6c0b81e165a0323f9c9d39c9697e37c46787"
+checksum = "ba4f4a02a7a80d6f274636f0aa95c7e383b912d41fe721a31f29e29698585a4a"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
@@ -13857,9 +13858,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-macros"
-version = "2.2.0"
+version = "2.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5b8a1e28f2deaa14e508979454cb3a223b10b938b45af148bc0986de36f1923b"
+checksum = "5f5ae998a069d4b5aba8ee9dad856af7d520c3699e6159b185c2acd48155d39a"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/src/utils/runtime/Cargo.toml b/src/utils/runtime/Cargo.toml
index 0559caee265d9..0815a005df5b5 100644
--- a/src/utils/runtime/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/utils/runtime/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ pprof = { version = "0.13", features = ["flamegraph"] }
 risingwave_common = { workspace = true }
 risingwave_variables = { workspace = true }
 rlimit = "0.10"
+# Explicitly specify the tokio version used in RisingWave runtime
+rw-tokio = { version = "=1.38.0", package = "tokio" }
 thiserror-ext = { workspace = true }
 time = { version = "0.3", features = ["formatting", "local-offset"] }
 tokio = { version = "0.2", package = "madsim-tokio", features = [