diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 895ab5fc4..6b5f820d7 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1716,9 +1716,9 @@ checksum = "f1bfbf25d7eb88ddcbb1ec3d755d0634da8f7657b2cb8b74089121409ab8228f"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "regex"
-version = "1.6.0"
+version = "1.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4c4eb3267174b8c6c2f654116623910a0fef09c4753f8dd83db29c48a0df988b"
+checksum = "e076559ef8e241f2ae3479e36f97bd5741c0330689e217ad51ce2c76808b868a"
 dependencies = [
  "aho-corasick",
  "memchr",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ce528c41e..509dc5cc1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ glob = "0.3.0"
 libc = "0.2"
 pretty_assertions = "1"
 rand = "0.8"
-regex = "1.6"
+regex = "1.7"
 sha1 = { version="0.10", features=["std"] }
 tempfile = "3"
 time = {version="0.3", features=["local-offset"]}
diff --git a/src/uu/csplit/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/csplit/Cargo.toml
index 3d55fd5c3..1b6781e74 100644
--- a/src/uu/csplit/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/csplit/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ path = "src/csplit.rs"
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["wrap_help", "cargo"] }
 thiserror = "1.0"
-regex = "1.6.0"
+regex = "1.7.0"
 uucore = { version=">=0.0.16", package="uucore", path="../../uucore", features=["entries", "fs"] }
 
 [[bin]]
diff --git a/src/uu/hashsum/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/hashsum/Cargo.toml
index 2168d5d70..937443f7d 100644
--- a/src/uu/hashsum/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/hashsum/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["wrap_help", "cargo"] }
 hex = "0.4.3"
 memchr = "2"
 md-5 = "0.10.5"
-regex = "1.6.0"
+regex = "1.7.0"
 sha1 = "0.10.1"
 sha2 = "0.10.2"
 sha3 = "0.10.6"
diff --git a/src/uu/nl/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/nl/Cargo.toml
index 5cb5f7bb9..8ad9697a0 100644
--- a/src/uu/nl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/nl/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ path = "src/nl.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["wrap_help", "cargo"] }
-regex = "1.6.0"
+regex = "1.7.0"
 uucore = { version=">=0.0.16", package="uucore", path="../../uucore" }
 
 [[bin]]
diff --git a/src/uu/pr/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/pr/Cargo.toml
index 0d8d35693..2a6f12f3d 100644
--- a/src/uu/pr/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/pr/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ time = { version = "0.3", features = ["local-offset", "macros", "formatting"] }
 uucore = { version=">=0.0.16", package="uucore", path="../../uucore", features=["entries"] }
 quick-error = "2.0.1"
 itertools = "0.10.0"
-regex = "1.6"
+regex = "1.7"
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "pr"
diff --git a/src/uu/ptx/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/ptx/Cargo.toml
index 6863a690d..96de27526 100644
--- a/src/uu/ptx/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/ptx/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ path = "src/ptx.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["wrap_help", "cargo"] }
-regex = "1.6.0"
+regex = "1.7.0"
 uucore = { version=">=0.0.16", package="uucore", path="../../uucore" }
 
 [[bin]]