diff --git a/pkgs/tools/package-management/cargo-outdated/0001-Fix-outdated-Cargo.lock.patch b/pkgs/tools/package-management/cargo-outdated/0001-Fix-outdated-Cargo.lock.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4b8bc874e67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/package-management/cargo-outdated/0001-Fix-outdated-Cargo.lock.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From fd0ccac1b3d4f78faa4c642dc2a413dfb54200fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Maximilian Bosch <maximilian@mbosch.me>
+Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:27:23 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix outdated Cargo.lock
+
+---
+ Cargo.lock | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
+index 8458954..8083e81 100644
+--- a/Cargo.lock
++++ b/Cargo.lock
+@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ dependencies = [
+ 
+ [[package]]
+ name = "cargo-outdated"
+-version = "0.9.6"
++version = "0.9.7"
+ dependencies = [
+  "cargo",
+  "docopt",
+-- 
+2.25.0
+
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/package-management/cargo-outdated/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/package-management/cargo-outdated/default.nix
index 7fc7d93f927..6f8a415c5cb 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/package-management/cargo-outdated/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/package-management/cargo-outdated/default.nix
@@ -2,19 +2,19 @@
 
 rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
   pname = "cargo-outdated";
-  version = "0.9.5";
+  version = "0.9.7";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "kbknapp";
     repo = pname;
-    # This is the git commit that produced 0.9.5, according to crates.io, but
-    # the tag is missing in git. See here for details:
-    # https://github.com/kbknapp/cargo-outdated/issues/206
-    rev = "7685da3265749bb7ae2b436a132f51d19b409bff";
-    sha256 = "08prksns7d3g7ha601z8p28p36rg44rjl5ph76vg6nriww96zzca";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0g91cfja4h9qhpxgnimczjna528ml645iz7hgpwl6yp0742qcal4";
   };
 
-  cargoSha256 = "0kxfavyd9slpp2kzxhjp47q1pzw9rlmn7yhxnjsg88sxbjxfzv95";
+  # Can be removed when updating to the next release.
+  cargoPatches = [ ./0001-Fix-outdated-Cargo.lock.patch ];
+
+  cargoSha256 = "0pr57g41lnn8srcbc11sb15qchf01zwqcb1802xdayj6wlc3g3dy";
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ openssl ]