diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index eb8cce9c5..22067ba0a 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -577,9 +577,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "criterion"
-version = "0.8.0"
+version = "0.8.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a0dfe5e9e71bdcf4e4954f7d14da74d1cdb92a3a07686452d1509652684b1aab"
+checksum = "4d883447757bb0ee46f233e9dc22eb84d93a9508c9b868687b274fc431d886bf"
 dependencies = [
  "alloca",
  "anes",
@@ -602,9 +602,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "criterion-plot"
-version = "0.8.0"
+version = "0.8.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5de36c2bee19fba779808f92bf5d9b0fa5a40095c277aba10c458a12b35d21d6"
+checksum = "ed943f81ea2faa8dcecbbfa50164acf95d555afec96a27871663b300e387b2e4"
 dependencies = [
  "cast",
  "itertools 0.13.0",
diff --git a/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml b/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
index 21b9669a1..8cd0ef944 100644
--- a/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.31.0", default-features = false, features =
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = "0.31"
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.31.0", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.48.0", features = ["full"] }
-criterion = "0.8.0"
+criterion = "0.8.1"
 tracing-chrome = "0.7.2"
 metrics-util = "0.20.1"
 metrics-exporter-prometheus = { version = "0.18.1", default-features = false }