diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 81f85e2..0befde9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -541,9 +541,9 @@ checksum = "baf1de4339761588bc0619e3cbc0120ee582ebb74b53b4efbf79117bd2da40fd"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "chrono"
-version = "0.4.37"
+version = "0.4.38"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8a0d04d43504c61aa6c7531f1871dd0d418d91130162063b789da00fd7057a5e"
+checksum = "a21f936df1771bf62b77f047b726c4625ff2e8aa607c01ec06e5a05bd8463401"
 dependencies = [
  "android-tzdata",
  "iana-time-zone",
diff --git a/timestampvm/Cargo.toml b/timestampvm/Cargo.toml
index b11d0a8..2a7feaa 100644
--- a/timestampvm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/timestampvm/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ readme = "../README.md"
 avalanche-types = { version = "0.1.5", features = ["subnet", "codec_base64"] } # https://crates.io/crates/avalanche-types
 base64 = { version = "0.22.0" }
 bytes = "1.6.0"
-chrono = "0.4.37"
+chrono = "0.4.38"
 clap = { version = "4.5.4", features = ["cargo", "derive"] } # https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/releases
 derivative = "2.2.0"
 env_logger = "0.11.3"