diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index cef33101b5f..7e644114a6d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4638,9 +4638,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rust-embed"
-version = "6.8.1"
+version = "8.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a36224c3276f8c4ebc8c20f158eca7ca4359c8db89991c4925132aaaf6702661"
+checksum = "b1e7d90385b59f0a6bf3d3b757f3ca4ece2048265d70db20a2016043d4509a40"
 dependencies = [
  "rust-embed-impl",
  "rust-embed-utils",
@@ -4649,9 +4649,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rust-embed-impl"
-version = "6.8.1"
+version = "8.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "49b94b81e5b2c284684141a2fb9e2a31be90638caf040bf9afbc5a0416afe1ac"
+checksum = "3c3d8c6fd84090ae348e63a84336b112b5c3918b3bf0493a581f7bd8ee623c29"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -4662,9 +4662,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rust-embed-utils"
-version = "7.8.1"
+version = "8.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9d38ff6bf570dc3bb7100fce9f7b60c33fa71d80e88da3f2580df4ff2bdded74"
+checksum = "873feff8cb7bf86fdf0a71bb21c95159f4e4a37dd7a4bd1855a940909b583ada"
 dependencies = [
  "sha2 0.10.7",
  "walkdir",
diff --git a/interop-tests/Cargo.toml b/interop-tests/Cargo.toml
index 568bab11edf..57905df1c48 100644
--- a/interop-tests/Cargo.toml
+++ b/interop-tests/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ libp2p-webrtc = { workspace = true, features = ["tokio"] }
 libp2p-mplex = { path = "../muxers/mplex" }
 mime_guess = "2.0"
 redis = { version = "0.23.0", default-features = false, features = ["tokio-comp"] }
-rust-embed = "6.8"
+rust-embed = "8.0"
 serde_json = "1"
 thirtyfour = "=0.32.0-rc.8" # https://github.com/stevepryde/thirtyfour/issues/169
 tokio = { version = "1.28.2", features = ["full"] }