diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 00f70633..2a959f51 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -915,13 +915,25 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "k8s-openapi"
+version = "0.26.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "06d9e5e61dd037cdc51da0d7e2b2be10f497478ea7e120d85dad632adb99882b"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64",
+ "chrono",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "kube"
 version = "1.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "778f98664beaf4c3c11372721e14310d1ae00f5e2d9aabcf8906c881aa4e9f51"
 dependencies = [
- "k8s-openapi",
+ "k8s-openapi 0.25.0",
  "kube-client",
  "kube-core",
  "kube-runtime",
@@ -948,7 +960,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "hyper-timeout",
  "hyper-util",
  "jsonpath-rust",
- "k8s-openapi",
+ "k8s-openapi 0.25.0",
  "kube-core",
  "pem",
  "rustls",
@@ -975,7 +987,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "form_urlencoded",
  "http",
  "json-patch",
- "k8s-openapi",
+ "k8s-openapi 0.25.0",
  "serde",
  "serde-value",
  "serde_json",
@@ -997,7 +1009,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "hashbrown 0.15.5",
  "hostname",
  "json-patch",
- "k8s-openapi",
+ "k8s-openapi 0.25.0",
  "kube-client",
  "parking_lot",
  "pin-project",
@@ -1086,7 +1098,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "clap",
  "futures",
- "k8s-openapi",
+ "k8s-openapi 0.26.1",
  "kube",
  "kubert",
  "prometheus-client",
diff --git a/cni-repair-controller/Cargo.toml b/cni-repair-controller/Cargo.toml
index 4c1d9728..8f3f1161 100644
--- a/cni-repair-controller/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cni-repair-controller/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ publish = false
 [dependencies]
 anyhow = "1"
 futures = "0.3"
-k8s-openapi = { version = "0.25", features = ["v1_33"] }
+k8s-openapi = { version = "0.26", features = ["v1_33"] }
 kube = { version = "1.1", default-features = false, features = ["runtime", "rustls-tls"] }
 prometheus-client = { version = "0.23", default-features = false }
 rustls = { version = "0.23", default-features = false, features = ["aws-lc-rs"] }