diff --git a/configs/components/rubygem-childprocess.rb b/configs/components/rubygem-childprocess.rb
index 6039b0be7..bf66ea4b2 100644
--- a/configs/components/rubygem-childprocess.rb
+++ b/configs/components/rubygem-childprocess.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 component "rubygem-childprocess" do |pkg, settings, platform|
-  pkg.version "4.1.0"
-  pkg.sha256sum '3616ce99ccb242361ce7f2b19bf9ff3e6bc1d98b927c7edc29af8ca617ba6cd3'
+  pkg.version "5.0.0"
+  pkg.sha256sum '221f98abeacce606ab3940785217c2d4a58ddbb7d267678b185acc54f92842c7'
 
   instance_eval File.read('configs/components/_base-rubygem.rb')
 end