diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/colord/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/colord/default.nix
index 71ec1276c7c..9f91a1acc60 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/colord/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/colord/default.nix
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 , automake, autoconf, libtool, gtk_doc, which, gobjectIntrospection }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "colord-1.1.7";
+  name = "colord-1.2.3";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/releases/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "295395526ee0be30917ae9c352e68bfeb20c7fc266a605725bef969f20547f44";
+    sha256 = "1z3l6hb3b08fixfra6m887a2j3lvhib6vp798ik16jfh375gr490";
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;