diff --git a/kube-client/Cargo.toml b/kube-client/Cargo.toml
index b3d4d683c..9c0622ee7 100644
--- a/kube-client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/kube-client/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ features = ["client", "rustls-tls", "openssl-tls", "ws", "oauth", "jsonpatch", "
 rustdoc-args = ["--cfg", "docsrs"]
 
 [dependencies]
-base64 = { version = "0.13.0", optional = true }
+base64 = { version = "0.20.0", optional = true }
 chrono = { version = "0.4.23", optional = true, default-features = false }
 dirs = { package = "dirs-next", optional = true, version = "2.0.0" }
 serde = { version = "1.0.130", features = ["derive"] }