diff --git a/actix-web-httpauth/CHANGES.md b/actix-web-httpauth/CHANGES.md
index fe1bc8e94..0bccda234 100644
--- a/actix-web-httpauth/CHANGES.md
+++ b/actix-web-httpauth/CHANGES.md
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [unreleased]
+  - Update the `base64` dependency to 0.12
+
 ## [0.4.1] - 2020-02-19
   - Move repository to actix-extras
 
diff --git a/actix-web-httpauth/Cargo.toml b/actix-web-httpauth/Cargo.toml
index 166a6163f..7dc23e5d2 100644
--- a/actix-web-httpauth/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-web-httpauth/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ actix-web = { version = "^2.0", default_features = false }
 actix-service = "1.0"
 futures = "0.3"
 bytes = "0.5"
-base64 = "0.11"
+base64 = "0.12"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-rt = "1.0"