diff --git a/deps/npm/package.json b/deps/npm/package.json
index 761c8c814e0216..ac7a72386b2edb 100644
--- a/deps/npm/package.json
+++ b/deps/npm/package.json
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
     "lru-cache": "~2.5.0",
     "minimatch": "~1.0.0",
     "mkdirp": "~0.5.0",
-    "node-gyp": "~1.0.1",
+    "node-gyp": "~8.0.0",
     "nopt": "~3.0.1",
     "normalize-package-data": "~1.0.3",
     "npm-cache-filename": "~1.0.1",