diff --git a/package/containerd/containerd.hash b/package/containerd/containerd.hash
index 16474089d1..65a87f25fa 100644
--- a/package/containerd/containerd.hash
+++ b/package/containerd/containerd.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Computed locally
-sha256  e0a893cf67df9dfaecbcde2ba4e896efb3a86ffe48dcfe0d2b26f7cf19b5af3a  containerd-1.6.16.tar.gz
+sha256  819086ccdca44cfc5f108e226c7a9294d8fad3eb32031a621623da80dedbfb11  containerd-1.6.20.tar.gz
 sha256  4bbe3b885e8cd1907ab4cf9a41e862e74e24b5422297a4f2fe524e6a30ada2b4  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/containerd/containerd.mk b/package/containerd/containerd.mk
index 4a0d6ec38b..bc1dd58611 100644
--- a/package/containerd/containerd.mk
+++ b/package/containerd/containerd.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-CONTAINERD_VERSION = 1.6.16
+CONTAINERD_VERSION = 1.6.20
 CONTAINERD_SITE = $(call github,containerd,containerd,v$(CONTAINERD_VERSION))
 CONTAINERD_LICENSE = Apache-2.0
 CONTAINERD_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE