diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b54cc5cbc2b42..e32ee19fabe04 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -14475,29 +14475,28 @@ checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.38.0"
+version = "1.40.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ba4f4a02a7a80d6f274636f0aa95c7e383b912d41fe721a31f29e29698585a4a"
+checksum = "e2b070231665d27ad9ec9b8df639893f46727666c6767db40317fbe920a5d998"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
  "libc",
- "mio 0.8.11",
- "num_cpus",
+ "mio 1.0.2",
  "parking_lot 0.12.1",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "signal-hook-registry",
  "socket2 0.5.6",
  "tokio-macros",
  "tracing",
- "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-macros"
-version = "2.3.0"
+version = "2.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5f5ae998a069d4b5aba8ee9dad856af7d520c3699e6159b185c2acd48155d39a"
+checksum = "693d596312e88961bc67d7f1f97af8a70227d9f90c31bba5806eec004978d752"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/src/utils/runtime/Cargo.toml b/src/utils/runtime/Cargo.toml
index 51fc39de9c0c4..dbbb225544359 100644
--- a/src/utils/runtime/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/utils/runtime/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ risingwave_variables = { workspace = true }
 rlimit = "0.10"
 rustls = "0.23.5"
 # Explicitly specify the tokio version used in RisingWave runtime
-rw-tokio = { version = "=1.38.0", package = "tokio" }
+rw-tokio = { version = "=1.40.0", package = "tokio" }
 thiserror-ext = { workspace = true }
 time = { version = "0.3", features = ["formatting", "local-offset"] }
 tokio = { version = "0.2", package = "madsim-tokio", features = [