diff --git a/package/expat/expat.hash b/package/expat/expat.hash
index 2346efbde5..9d99c38a45 100644
--- a/package/expat/expat.hash
+++ b/package/expat/expat.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  21b778b34ec837c2ac285aef340f9fb5fa063a811b21ea4d2412a9702c88995c  expat-2.7.2.tar.xz
+sha256  71df8f40706a7bb0a80a5367079ea75d91da4f8c65c58ec59bcdfbf7decdab9f  expat-2.7.3.tar.xz
 sha256  31b15de82aa19a845156169a17a5488bf597e561b2c318d159ed583139b25e87  COPYING
diff --git a/package/expat/expat.mk b/package/expat/expat.mk
index 02dda3b12c..07aba205cf 100644
--- a/package/expat/expat.mk
+++ b/package/expat/expat.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-EXPAT_VERSION = 2.7.2
+EXPAT_VERSION = 2.7.3
 EXPAT_SITE = https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/download/R_$(subst .,_,$(EXPAT_VERSION))
 EXPAT_SOURCE = expat-$(EXPAT_VERSION).tar.xz
 EXPAT_INSTALL_STAGING = YES