diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5f074c37f1228..6c78f05f90549 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1627,9 +1627,9 @@ checksum = "9f7c3e4beb33f85d45ae3e3a1792185706c8e16d043238c593331cc7cd313b50"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "openssl"
-version = "0.10.76"
+version = "0.10.77"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "951c002c75e16ea2c65b8c7e4d3d51d5530d8dfa7d060b4776828c88cfb18ecf"
+checksum = "bfe4646e360ec77dff7dde40ed3d6c5fee52d156ef4a62f53973d38294dad87f"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
  "cfg-if",
@@ -1659,9 +1659,9 @@ checksum = "d05e27ee213611ffe7d6348b942e8f942b37114c00cc03cec254295a4a17852e"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "openssl-sys"
-version = "0.9.112"
+version = "0.9.113"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "57d55af3b3e226502be1526dfdba67ab0e9c96fc293004e79576b2b9edb0dbdb"
+checksum = "ad2f2c0eba47118757e4c6d2bff2838f3e0523380021356e7875e858372ce644"
 dependencies = [
  "cc",
  "libc",
diff --git a/policy-controller/runtime/Cargo.toml b/policy-controller/runtime/Cargo.toml
index 968fc995f55ee..2c09aef853fbc 100644
--- a/policy-controller/runtime/Cargo.toml
+++ b/policy-controller/runtime/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ hyper = { workspace = true, features = ["http1", "http2", "server"] }
 hyper-util = { workspace = true }
 ipnet = { version = "2", default-features = false }
 k8s-openapi = { workspace = true }
-openssl = { version = "0.10.76", optional = true }
+openssl = { version = "0.10.77", optional = true }
 parking_lot = "0.12"
 prometheus-client = { workspace = true }
 regex = "1"