diff --git a/nym-vpn-core/Cargo.lock b/nym-vpn-core/Cargo.lock
index cbd26cbe80..1465ab001a 100644
--- a/nym-vpn-core/Cargo.lock
+++ b/nym-vpn-core/Cargo.lock
@@ -3115,17 +3115,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustversion",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "io-uring"
-version = "0.7.10"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "046fa2d4d00aea763528b4950358d0ead425372445dc8ff86312b3c69ff7727b"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags 2.9.4",
- "cfg-if",
- "libc",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "ioctl-sys"
 version = "0.8.0"
@@ -8482,29 +8471,26 @@ checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.47.1"
+version = "1.48.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "89e49afdadebb872d3145a5638b59eb0691ea23e46ca484037cfab3b76b95038"
+checksum = "ff360e02eab121e0bc37a2d3b4d4dc622e6eda3a8e5253d5435ecf5bd4c68408"
 dependencies = [
- "backtrace",
  "bytes",
- "io-uring",
  "libc",
  "mio",
  "parking_lot",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "signal-hook-registry",
- "slab",
  "socket2 0.6.0",
  "tokio-macros",
- "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.1",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-macros"
-version = "2.5.0"
+version = "2.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6e06d43f1345a3bcd39f6a56dbb7dcab2ba47e68e8ac134855e7e2bdbaf8cab8"
+checksum = "af407857209536a95c8e56f8231ef2c2e2aff839b22e07a1ffcbc617e9db9fa5"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/nym-vpn-core/Cargo.toml b/nym-vpn-core/Cargo.toml
index 2a6121c035..7b917e0112 100644
--- a/nym-vpn-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/nym-vpn-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ tempfile = "3.23"
 tabled = "0.20"
 thiserror = "2.0"
 time = "0.3.44"
-tokio = "1.47"
+tokio = "1.48"
 tokio-rustls = { version = "0.26", default-features = false }
 tokio-stream = "0.1.17"
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7.16", features = ["codec"] }