diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1ed06136646..bae5d7addc5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4998,9 +4998,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rust-embed"
-version = "8.2.0"
+version = "8.9.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a82c0bbc10308ed323529fd3c1dce8badda635aa319a5ff0e6466f33b8101e3f"
+checksum = "947d7f3fad52b283d261c4c99a084937e2fe492248cb9a68a8435a861b8798ca"
 dependencies = [
  "rust-embed-impl",
  "rust-embed-utils",
@@ -5009,9 +5009,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rust-embed-impl"
-version = "8.2.0"
+version = "8.9.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6227c01b1783cdfee1bcf844eb44594cd16ec71c35305bf1c9fb5aade2735e16"
+checksum = "5fa2c8c9e8711e10f9c4fd2d64317ef13feaab820a4c51541f1a8c8e2e851ab2"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -5023,9 +5023,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rust-embed-utils"
-version = "8.2.0"
+version = "8.9.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8cb0a25bfbb2d4b4402179c2cf030387d9990857ce08a32592c6238db9fa8665"
+checksum = "60b161f275cb337fe0a44d924a5f4df0ed69c2c39519858f931ce61c779d3475"
 dependencies = [
  "globset",
  "sha2 0.10.8",
diff --git a/examples/browser-webrtc/Cargo.toml b/examples/browser-webrtc/Cargo.toml
index 5e3c8a0c666..2ff209030a6 100644
--- a/examples/browser-webrtc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/browser-webrtc/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
 axum = "0.7.4"
 libp2p = { path = "../../libp2p", features = [ "ed25519", "macros", "ping", "tokio"] }
 libp2p-webrtc = { workspace = true, features = ["tokio"] }
-rust-embed = { version = "8.2.0", features = ["include-exclude", "interpolate-folder-path"] }
+rust-embed = { version = "8.9.0", features = ["include-exclude", "interpolate-folder-path"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.36", features = ["macros", "net", "rt", "signal"] }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", features = ["compat"] }
 tower = "0.4"
diff --git a/interop-tests/Cargo.toml b/interop-tests/Cargo.toml
index 81c17e19303..1d40952b0d2 100644
--- a/interop-tests/Cargo.toml
+++ b/interop-tests/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ mime_guess = "2.0"
 redis = { version = "0.23.3", default-features = false, features = [
     "tokio-comp",
 ] }
-rust-embed = "8.2"
+rust-embed = "8.9"
 serde_json = "1"
 thirtyfour = "=0.32.0-rc.8" # https://github.com/stevepryde/thirtyfour/issues/169
 tokio = { version = "1.36.0", features = ["full"] }