diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 342b2aa0..3dad9afc 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4022,9 +4022,9 @@ checksum = "f2ff9a1f06a88b01621b7ae906ef0211290d1c8a168a15542486a8f61c0833b9"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rayon"
-version = "1.8.1"
+version = "1.9.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "fa7237101a77a10773db45d62004a272517633fbcc3df19d96455ede1122e051"
+checksum = "e4963ed1bc86e4f3ee217022bd855b297cef07fb9eac5dfa1f788b220b49b3bd"
 dependencies = [
  "either",
  "rayon-core",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 92004303..025785b2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ opentelemetry = { version = "0.21", default-features = false, features = [
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.21", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 procfs = "0.16"
 policy-evaluator = { git = "https://github.com/kubewarden/policy-evaluator", tag = "v0.16.1" }
-rayon = "1.8"
+rayon = "1.9"
 serde_json = "1.0"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_yaml = "0.9.32"