diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1c453da9d3045..a81f71b8dc7cb 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -834,6 +834,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustc_version 0.2.3",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cast"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "37b2a672a2cb129a2e41c10b1224bb368f9f37a2b16b612598138befd7b37eb5"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cc"
 version = "1.0.71"
@@ -1284,12 +1290,12 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "criterion"
-version = "0.3.5"
+version = "0.3.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1604dafd25fba2fe2d5895a9da139f8dc9b319a5fe5354ca137cbbce4e178d10"
+checksum = "b01d6de93b2b6c65e17c634a26653a29d107b3c98c607c765bf38d041531cd8f"
 dependencies = [
  "atty",
- "cast",
+ "cast 0.3.0",
  "clap 2.34.0",
  "criterion-plot",
  "csv",
@@ -1316,7 +1322,7 @@ version = "0.4.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d00996de9f2f7559f7f4dc286073197f83e92256a59ed395f9aac01fe717da57"
 dependencies = [
- "cast",
+ "cast 0.2.3",
  "itertools",
 ]
 
diff --git a/bin/node/cli/Cargo.toml b/bin/node/cli/Cargo.toml
index 89ca3ebb45576..4f7e106428233 100644
--- a/bin/node/cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bin/node/cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ regex = "1.5.5"
 platforms = "2.0"
 async-std = { version = "1.11.0", features = ["attributes"] }
 soketto = "0.7.1"
-criterion = { version = "0.3.5", features = ["async_tokio"] }
+criterion = { version = "0.3.6", features = ["async_tokio"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.17.0", features = ["macros", "time", "parking_lot"] }
 wait-timeout = "0.2"
 remote-externalities = { path = "../../../utils/frame/remote-externalities" }
diff --git a/bin/node/executor/Cargo.toml b/bin/node/executor/Cargo.toml
index 71865783da8ac..69a71e3df28d4 100644
--- a/bin/node/executor/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bin/node/executor/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ sp-tracing = { version = "5.0.0", path = "../../../primitives/tracing" }
 sp-trie = { version = "6.0.0", path = "../../../primitives/trie" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-criterion = "0.3.0"
+criterion = "0.3.6"
 futures = "0.3.21"
 wat = "1.0"
 frame-support = { version = "4.0.0-dev", path = "../../../frame/support" }
diff --git a/client/db/Cargo.toml b/client/db/Cargo.toml
index 7bfba997767f2..909c804c7656e 100644
--- a/client/db/Cargo.toml
+++ b/client/db/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ sp-state-machine = { version = "0.12.0", path = "../../primitives/state-machine"
 sp-trie = { version = "6.0.0", path = "../../primitives/trie" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-criterion = "0.3.3"
+criterion = "0.3.6"
 kvdb-rocksdb = "0.15.1"
 rand = "0.8.4"
 tempfile = "3.1.0"
diff --git a/frame/system/Cargo.toml b/frame/system/Cargo.toml
index 3429c6546c7fd..c53b384d844d5 100644
--- a/frame/system/Cargo.toml
+++ b/frame/system/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ sp-std = { version = "4.0.0", default-features = false, path = "../../primitives
 sp-version = { version = "5.0.0", default-features = false, path = "../../primitives/version" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-criterion = "0.3.3"
+criterion = "0.3.6"
 sp-externalities = { version = "0.12.0", path = "../../primitives/externalities" }
 substrate-test-runtime-client = { version = "2.0.0", path = "../../test-utils/runtime/client" }
 
diff --git a/primitives/api/test/Cargo.toml b/primitives/api/test/Cargo.toml
index 25000072c88a9..facc60c39df5f 100644
--- a/primitives/api/test/Cargo.toml
+++ b/primitives/api/test/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ trybuild = "1.0.60"
 rustversion = "1.0.6"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-criterion = "0.3.0"
+criterion = "0.3.6"
 futures = "0.3.21"
 log = "0.4.17"
 sp-core = { version = "6.0.0", path = "../../core" }
diff --git a/primitives/core/Cargo.toml b/primitives/core/Cargo.toml
index 2cdfd04e942d7..74fc04aa2cb30 100644
--- a/primitives/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/primitives/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ sp-runtime-interface = { version = "6.0.0", default-features = false, path = "..
 sp-serializer = { version = "4.0.0-dev", path = "../serializer" }
 hex-literal = "0.3.4"
 rand = "0.7.2"
-criterion = "0.3.3"
+criterion = "0.3.6"
 serde_json = "1.0"
 sp-core-hashing-proc-macro = { version = "5.0.0", path = "./hashing/proc-macro" }
 
diff --git a/primitives/trie/Cargo.toml b/primitives/trie/Cargo.toml
index 84b97a9f88da8..2f3ae5c0da499 100644
--- a/primitives/trie/Cargo.toml
+++ b/primitives/trie/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ sp-core = { version = "6.0.0", default-features = false, path = "../core" }
 sp-std = { version = "4.0.0", default-features = false, path = "../std" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-criterion = "0.3.3"
+criterion = "0.3.6"
 hex-literal = "0.3.4"
 trie-bench = "0.31.0"
 trie-standardmap = "0.15.2"