diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b9deab6e01f9b..7a5154efea9dc 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1597,9 +1597,9 @@ checksum = "1261fe7e33c73b354eab43b1273a57c8f967d0391e80353e51f764ac02cf6775"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "openssl"
-version = "0.10.68"
+version = "0.10.69"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6174bc48f102d208783c2c84bf931bb75927a617866870de8a4ea85597f871f5"
+checksum = "f5e534d133a060a3c19daec1eb3e98ec6f4685978834f2dbadfe2ec215bab64e"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.5.0",
  "cfg-if",
diff --git a/policy-controller/runtime/Cargo.toml b/policy-controller/runtime/Cargo.toml
index 0a70e6fe21269..9cb71af762f2c 100644
--- a/policy-controller/runtime/Cargo.toml
+++ b/policy-controller/runtime/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ futures = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }
 k8s-openapi = { workspace = true }
 hyper = { version = "0.14", features = ["http1", "http2", "runtime", "server"] }
 ipnet = { version = "2", default-features = false }
-openssl = { version = "0.10.68", optional = true }
+openssl = { version = "0.10.69", optional = true }
 parking_lot = "0.12"
 prometheus-client = { version = "0.22.3", default-features = false }
 serde = "1"