diff --git a/packages/c-ares/build.sh b/packages/c-ares/build.sh
index c92d80c47..cc1b5bb1f 100644
--- a/packages/c-ares/build.sh
+++ b/packages/c-ares/build.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://c-ares.haxx.se
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library for asynchronous DNS requests (including name resolves)"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.17.2
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.18.0
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/archive/cares-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION//./_}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=444b7dbf33cb6e8a764d069e3485cbaaa28386d60eace6988275c3cb9534d300
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=f6b5dafc8db9290bdcfdabbfb3e5dbac495d51a1948fb2099368b974f4ce928e
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE_TAG_REGEXP="\d+.\d+.\d+"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="c-ares-dev"