diff --git a/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.hash b/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.hash
index a169fc067d..daf043347f 100644
--- a/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.hash
+++ b/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # retrieved by scancpan from http://cpan.metacpan.org/
-md5  d7fc1b1c88d03357aed2f03b455a223e  URI-5.12.tar.gz
-sha256  66abe0eaddd76b74801ecd28ec1411605887550fc0a45ef6aa744fdad768d9b3  URI-5.12.tar.gz
+md5  63675c429cfb1df73d7d21a9302e1000  URI-5.17.tar.gz
+sha256  5f7e42b769cb27499113cfae4b786c37d49e7c7d32dbb469602cd808308568f8  URI-5.17.tar.gz
 
 # computed by scancpan
 sha256  d4f0b7a8771dcb1eee79a38c2e466eb997e23565a6687dd1900a2027eabe12a0  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.mk b/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.mk
index b0ac885c10..d4bfcb44ef 100644
--- a/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.mk
+++ b/package/perl-uri/perl-uri.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PERL_URI_VERSION = 5.12
+PERL_URI_VERSION = 5.17
 PERL_URI_SOURCE = URI-$(PERL_URI_VERSION).tar.gz
 PERL_URI_SITE = $(BR2_CPAN_MIRROR)/authors/id/O/OA/OALDERS
 PERL_URI_LICENSE = Artistic or GPL-1.0+