diff --git a/polkadot/Cargo.lock b/polkadot/Cargo.lock
index 809d0ce994..7a50e96283 100644
--- a/polkadot/Cargo.lock
+++ b/polkadot/Cargo.lock
@@ -1865,6 +1865,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "quote",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "expander"
+version = "0.0.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "309f21c39e8e38e4b6eda07e155bd7a4e5fc4d707cefd0402cc82a8b6bb65aaa"
+dependencies = [
+ "blake2 0.10.2",
+ "fs-err",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "eyre"
 version = "0.6.5"
@@ -1912,7 +1924,7 @@ version = "0.0.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f5aa1e3ae159e592ad222dc90c5acbad632b527779ba88486abe92782ab268bd"
 dependencies = [
- "expander",
+ "expander 0.0.4",
  "indexmap",
  "proc-macro-crate 1.1.3",
  "proc-macro2",
@@ -7041,7 +7053,7 @@ name = "polkadot-overseer-gen-proc-macro"
 version = "0.9.17"
 dependencies = [
  "assert_matches",
- "expander",
+ "expander 0.0.5",
  "proc-macro-crate 1.1.3",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/polkadot/node/overseer/overseer-gen/proc-macro/Cargo.toml b/polkadot/node/overseer/overseer-gen/proc-macro/Cargo.toml
index 786728aa98..6bddd31e37 100644
--- a/polkadot/node/overseer/overseer-gen/proc-macro/Cargo.toml
+++ b/polkadot/node/overseer/overseer-gen/proc-macro/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ syn = { version = "1.0.86", features = ["full", "extra-traits"] }
 quote = "1.0.15"
 proc-macro2 = "1.0.36"
 proc-macro-crate = "1.1.3"
-expander = "0.0.4"
+expander = { version = "0.0.5", default-features = false }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 assert_matches = "1.5.0"