diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 7f909d470ecd..a08d5812160e 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -45,4 +45,7 @@ skip = [
     { name = "wast" }, # old one pulled in by witx
     { name = "itertools" }, # 0.9 pulled in by zstd-sys
     { name = "quick-error" }, # transitive dependencies
+    { name = "rustc_version" }, # transitive dependencies of criterion's build script (see https://github.com/japaric/cast.rs/pull/26)
+    { name = "semver" }, # transitive dependencies of criterion's build script (see https://github.com/japaric/cast.rs/pull/26)
+    { name = "semver-parser" }, # transitive dependencies of criterion's build script (see https://github.com/japaric/cast.rs/pull/26)
 ]