diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 836e0e40..cf0f28db 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2039,7 +2039,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "cargo-util-schemas",
  "cargo_metadata",
  "clap",
- "object 0.39.1",
+ "object 0.40.0",
  "wasmtime 36.0.14",
  "wasmtime 45.0.3",
 ]
@@ -2755,6 +2755,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "object"
+version = "0.40.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "dd229a0361b9d0d4396176e02d65897f487eebeab7caa6d443855ee152ca0b9c"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "oci-spec"
 version = "0.10.0"
diff --git a/src/hyperlight_wasm_aot/Cargo.toml b/src/hyperlight_wasm_aot/Cargo.toml
index ce12ff55..8ccb9b13 100644
--- a/src/hyperlight_wasm_aot/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/hyperlight_wasm_aot/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ wasmtime_lts = { package = "wasmtime", version = "36.0.11", default-features = f
 clap = { version = "4.6", features = ["derive"] }
 cargo_metadata = "0.23"
 cargo-util-schemas = "=0.14.1"
-object = { version = "0.39.1", default-features = false, features = ["read_core", "elf"] }
+object = { version = "0.40.0", default-features = false, features = ["read_core", "elf"] }
 
 [features]
 gdb = ["wasmtime/debug-builtins", "wasmtime_lts/debug-builtins"]