diff --git a/package/busybox/busybox.hash b/package/busybox/busybox.hash
index 6d1c36906d..6eba365ecc 100644
--- a/package/busybox/busybox.hash
+++ b/package/busybox/busybox.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# From https://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.35.0.tar.bz2.sha256
-sha256  542750c8af7cb2630e201780b4f99f3dcceeb06f505b479ec68241c1e6af61a5  busybox-1.36.0.tar.bz2
+# From https://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.36.1.tar.bz2.sha256
+sha256  b8cc24c9574d809e7279c3be349795c5d5ceb6fdf19ca709f80cde50e47de314  busybox-1.36.1.tar.bz2
 # Locally computed
 sha256  bbfc9843646d483c334664f651c208b9839626891d8f17604db2146962f43548  LICENSE
 sha256  b5a136ed67798e51fe2e0ca0b2a21cb01b904ff0c9f7d563a6292e276607e58f  archival/libarchive/bz/LICENSE
diff --git a/package/busybox/busybox.mk b/package/busybox/busybox.mk
index fd4f3c17c5..eb5e7ad922 100644
--- a/package/busybox/busybox.mk
+++ b/package/busybox/busybox.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-BUSYBOX_VERSION = 1.36.0
+BUSYBOX_VERSION = 1.36.1
 BUSYBOX_SITE = https://www.busybox.net/downloads
 BUSYBOX_SOURCE = busybox-$(BUSYBOX_VERSION).tar.bz2
 BUSYBOX_LICENSE = GPL-2.0, bzip2-1.0.4