diff --git a/axum-core/Cargo.toml b/axum-core/Cargo.toml
index f9e7869283..76dde1bc23 100644
--- a/axum-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/axum-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ tower-layer = "0.3"
 tower-service = "0.3"
 
 # optional dependencies
-tower-http = { version = "0.5.0", optional = true, features = ["limit"] }
+tower-http = { version = "0.6.0", optional = true, features = ["limit"] }
 tracing = { version = "0.1.37", default-features = false, optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ axum-extra = { path = "../axum-extra", features = ["typed-header"] }
 futures-util = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
 hyper = "1.0.0"
 tokio = { version = "1.25.0", features = ["macros"] }
-tower-http = { version = "0.5.0", features = ["limit"] }
+tower-http = { version = "0.6.0", features = ["limit"] }
 
 [package.metadata.cargo-public-api-crates]
 allowed = [
diff --git a/axum-extra/Cargo.toml b/axum-extra/Cargo.toml
index e091cd9c81..3032f661d0 100644
--- a/axum-extra/Cargo.toml
+++ b/axum-extra/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ http-body-util = "0.1.0"
 mime = "0.3"
 pin-project-lite = "0.2"
 serde = "1.0"
-tower = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["util"] }
+tower = { version = "0.5.1", default-features = false, features = ["util"] }
 tower-layer = "0.3"
 tower-service = "0.3"
 
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["json", "str
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.71"
 tokio = { version = "1.14", features = ["full"] }
-tower = { version = "0.4", features = ["util"] }
-tower-http = { version = "0.5.0", features = ["map-response-body", "timeout"] }
+tower = { version = "0.5.1", features = ["util"] }
+tower-http = { version = "0.6.0", features = ["map-response-body", "timeout"] }
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 all-features = true
diff --git a/axum/Cargo.toml b/axum/Cargo.toml
index a88a199786..b1f30997c9 100644
--- a/axum/Cargo.toml
+++ b/axum/Cargo.toml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ pin-project-lite = "0.2.7"
 rustversion = "1.0.9"
 serde = "1.0"
 sync_wrapper = "1.0.0"
-tower = { version = "0.4.13", default-features = false, features = ["util"] }
+tower = { version = "0.5.1", default-features = false, features = ["util"] }
 tower-layer = "0.3.2"
 tower-service = "0.3"
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.23", optional = true }
 tracing = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, optional = true }
 
 [dependencies.tower-http]
-version = "0.5.0"
+version = "0.6.0"
 optional = true
 features = [
     # all tower-http features except (de)?compression-zstd which doesn't
diff --git a/axum/src/boxed.rs b/axum/src/boxed.rs
index 32808f51de..217a6cc98e 100644
--- a/axum/src/boxed.rs
+++ b/axum/src/boxed.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use std::{convert::Infallible, fmt};
 
 use crate::extract::Request;
 use crate::util::AxumMutex;
-use tower::Service;
+use tower_service::Service;
 
 use crate::{
     handler::Handler,