diff --git a/substrate/Cargo.lock b/substrate/Cargo.lock
index 39dedb3183..307274395c 100644
--- a/substrate/Cargo.lock
+++ b/substrate/Cargo.lock
@@ -1531,9 +1531,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "directories"
-version = "3.0.2"
+version = "4.0.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e69600ff1703123957937708eb27f7a564e48885c537782722ed0ba3189ce1d7"
+checksum = "f51c5d4ddabd36886dd3e1438cb358cdcb0d7c499cb99cb4ac2e38e18b5cb210"
 dependencies = [
  "dirs-sys",
 ]
diff --git a/substrate/client/service/Cargo.toml b/substrate/client/service/Cargo.toml
index c3ae145204..bb8c9ecf6a 100644
--- a/substrate/client/service/Cargo.toml
+++ b/substrate/client/service/Cargo.toml
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ parity-util-mem = { version = "0.10.0", default-features = false, features = [
 async-trait = "0.1.50"
 tokio = { version = "1.10", features = ["time", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 tempfile = "3.1.0"
-directories = "3.0.2"
+directories = "4.0.1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 substrate-test-runtime-client = { version = "2.0.0", path = "../../test-utils/runtime/client" }