diff --git a/package/libpwquality/libpwquality.hash b/package/libpwquality/libpwquality.hash
index 07c50ed24e..1469bc0b7a 100644
--- a/package/libpwquality/libpwquality.hash
+++ b/package/libpwquality/libpwquality.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  5263e09ee62269c092f790ac159112aed3e66826a795e3afec85fdeac4281c8e  libpwquality-1.4.2.tar.bz2
+sha256  d43baf23dc6887fe8f8e9b75cabaabc5f4bbbaa0f9eff44278d276141752a545  libpwquality-1.4.4.tar.bz2
 sha256  aa44d09f651bf99b56253187c7778a240740c767d28453ab7fdc9804c842baee  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libpwquality/libpwquality.mk b/package/libpwquality/libpwquality.mk
index a2fb00415f..7c0c5df38e 100644
--- a/package/libpwquality/libpwquality.mk
+++ b/package/libpwquality/libpwquality.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBPWQUALITY_VERSION = 1.4.2
+LIBPWQUALITY_VERSION = 1.4.4
 LIBPWQUALITY_SOURCE = libpwquality-$(LIBPWQUALITY_VERSION).tar.bz2
 LIBPWQUALITY_SITE = https://github.com/libpwquality/libpwquality/releases/download/libpwquality-$(LIBPWQUALITY_VERSION)
 LIBPWQUALITY_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause or GPL-2.0+