diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 070453729f..ba5e247177 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2206,9 +2206,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "either"
-version = "1.6.1"
+version = "1.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e78d4f1cc4ae33bbfc157ed5d5a5ef3bc29227303d595861deb238fcec4e9457"
+checksum = "3f107b87b6afc2a64fd13cac55fe06d6c8859f12d4b14cbcdd2c67d0976781be"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "elasticsearch"
diff --git a/network-p2p/Cargo.toml b/network-p2p/Cargo.toml
index 3bd343b1d3..6ee567b346 100644
--- a/network-p2p/Cargo.toml
+++ b/network-p2p/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ asynchronous-codec = "0.5"
 bcs-ext = { package="bcs-ext", path = "../commons/bcs_ext" }
 
 derive_more = "0.99.14"
-either = "1.6.1"
+either = "1.7.0"
 fnv = "1.0.6"
 futures = "0.3.12"
 futures-timer = "3.0"