diff --git a/package/stunnel/stunnel.hash b/package/stunnel/stunnel.hash
index d3b9451ce9..999a4500ed 100644
--- a/package/stunnel/stunnel.hash
+++ b/package/stunnel/stunnel.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# From https://www.stunnel.org/downloads/stunnel-5.44.tar.gz.sha256
-sha256	990a325dbb47d77d88772dd02fbbd27d91b1fea3ece76c9ff4461eca93f12299	stunnel-5.44.tar.gz
+# From https://www.stunnel.org/downloads/stunnel-5.53.tar.gz.sha256
+sha256	80439896ee14269eb70bc8bc669433c7d619018a62c9f9c5c760a24515302585	stunnel-5.53.tar.gz
 # Locally calculated
-sha256	c43821865591e4d893906e2801b5ec4de58e51978f5563a61475cd0adc0bec4d	COPYING
+sha256	81d0b7244f44ef81dd0b299cf681037c5a42d468b8533e53aff6d1ac84c97dc8	COPYING
 sha256	1ee2b290e92c211b08df10e9fcaf32596cdb22b8eae731b18c2c074a4a83eebe	COPYRIGHT.GPL
diff --git a/package/stunnel/stunnel.mk b/package/stunnel/stunnel.mk
index 9a81373a54..adfa0748ae 100644
--- a/package/stunnel/stunnel.mk
+++ b/package/stunnel/stunnel.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 STUNNEL_VERSION_MAJOR = 5
-STUNNEL_VERSION = $(STUNNEL_VERSION_MAJOR).44
+STUNNEL_VERSION = $(STUNNEL_VERSION_MAJOR).53
 STUNNEL_SITE = http://www.usenix.org.uk/mirrors/stunnel/archive/$(STUNNEL_VERSION_MAJOR).x
 STUNNEL_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf openssl
 STUNNEL_CONF_OPTS = --with-ssl=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr --with-threads=fork \