diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8d44eec2623de..b4443dd438490 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1250,6 +1250,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "dirs-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "directories"
+version = "3.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f8fed639d60b58d0f53498ab13d26f621fd77569cc6edb031f4cc36a2ad9da0f"
+dependencies = [
+ "dirs-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "dirs-sys"
 version = "0.3.5"
@@ -7320,7 +7329,7 @@ version = "0.8.0"
 dependencies = [
  "async-std",
  "derive_more",
- "directories",
+ "directories 3.0.1",
  "exit-future",
  "futures 0.1.30",
  "futures 0.3.8",
@@ -10153,7 +10162,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "cranelift-entity",
  "cranelift-frontend",
  "cranelift-wasm",
- "directories",
+ "directories 2.0.2",
  "errno",
  "file-per-thread-logger",
  "indexmap",
diff --git a/client/service/Cargo.toml b/client/service/Cargo.toml
index 3d0b00820fe6d..23af49d38b12a 100644
--- a/client/service/Cargo.toml
+++ b/client/service/Cargo.toml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ parity-util-mem = { version = "0.7.0", default-features = false, features = ["pr
 
 [target.'cfg(not(target_os = "unknown"))'.dependencies]
 tempfile = "3.1.0"
-directories = "2.0.2"
+directories = "3.0.1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 substrate-test-runtime-client = { version = "2.0.0", path = "../../test-utils/runtime/client" }