diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 28a5ab94..e96c24e0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -338,9 +338,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "clap"
-version = "4.4.16"
+version = "4.4.18"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "58e54881c004cec7895b0068a0a954cd5d62da01aef83fa35b1e594497bf5445"
+checksum = "1e578d6ec4194633722ccf9544794b71b1385c3c027efe0c55db226fc880865c"
 dependencies = [
  "clap_builder",
  "clap_derive",
@@ -348,9 +348,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "clap_builder"
-version = "4.4.16"
+version = "4.4.18"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "59cb82d7f531603d2fd1f507441cdd35184fa81beff7bd489570de7f773460bb"
+checksum = "4df4df40ec50c46000231c914968278b1eb05098cf8f1b3a518a95030e71d1c7"
 dependencies = [
  "anstyle",
  "clap_lex",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c3cb7c56..73ec640b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ hmac = "0.12.1"
 sha-1 = "0.10.1"
 sha2 = { version = "0.10.8" }
 # used for conduit's CLI and admin room command parsing
-clap = { version = "4.4.16", default-features = false, features = ["std", "derive", "help", "usage", "error-context"] }
+clap = { version = "4.4.18", default-features = false, features = ["std", "derive", "help", "usage", "error-context"] }
 futures-util = { version = "0.3.30", default-features = false }
 # Used for reading the configuration from conduit.toml & environment variables
 figment = { version = "0.10.13", features = ["env", "toml"] }