diff --git a/srcpkgs/cargo/patches/downgrade-git2.patch b/srcpkgs/cargo/patches/downgrade-git2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ace10e77029
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/cargo/patches/downgrade-git2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
+index cc0cb9a..f6de424 100644
+--- a/Cargo.lock
++++ b/Cargo.lock
+@@ -1006,11 +1006,11 @@ dependencies = [
+ 
+ [[package]]
+ name = "git2"
+-version = "0.18.0"
++version = "0.17.2"
+ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+-checksum = "12ef350ba88a33b4d524b1d1c79096c9ade5ef8c59395df0e60d1e1889414c0e"
++checksum = "7b989d6a7ca95a362cf2cfc5ad688b3a467be1f87e480b8dad07fee8c79b0044"
+ dependencies = [
+- "bitflags 2.3.3",
++ "bitflags 1.3.2",
+  "libc",
+  "libgit2-sys",
+  "log",
+@@ -1021,9 +1021,9 @@ dependencies = [
+ 
+ [[package]]
+ name = "git2-curl"
+-version = "0.19.0"
++version = "0.18.0"
+ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+-checksum = "78e26b61608c573ffd26fc79061a823aa5147449a1afe1f61679a21e2031f7c3"
++checksum = "f8f8b7432b72928cff76f69e59ed5327f94a52763731e71274960dee72fe5f8c"
+ dependencies = [
+  "curl",
+  "git2",
+@@ -2003,9 +2003,9 @@ checksum = "9cdc71e17332e86d2e1d38c1f99edcb6288ee11b815fb1a4b049eaa2114d369b"
+ 
+ [[package]]
+ name = "libgit2-sys"
+-version = "0.16.1+1.7.1"
++version = "0.15.2+1.6.4"
+ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+-checksum = "f2a2bb3680b094add03bb3732ec520ece34da31a8cd2d633d1389d0f0fb60d0c"
++checksum = "a80df2e11fb4a61f4ba2ab42dbe7f74468da143f1a75c74e11dee7c813f694fa"
+ dependencies = [
+  "cc",
+  "libc",
+diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
+index 4403044..1d50590 100644
+--- a/Cargo.toml
++++ b/Cargo.toml
+@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ curl = "0.4.44"
+ curl-sys = "0.4.68"
+ filetime = "0.2.22"
+ flate2 = { version = "1.0.27", default-features = false, features = ["zlib"] }
+-git2 = "0.18.0"
+-git2-curl = "0.19.0"
++git2 = "0.17.2"
++git2-curl = "0.18.0"
+ gix = { version = "0.54.1", default-features = false, features = ["blocking-http-transport-curl", "progress-tree", "revision"] }
+ gix-features-for-configuration-only = { version = "0.35.0", package = "gix-features", features = [ "parallel" ] }
+ glob = "0.3.1"
+@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ itertools = "0.10.0"
+ jobserver = "0.1.26"
+ lazycell = "1.3.0"
+ libc = "0.2.148"
+-libgit2-sys = "0.16.1"
++libgit2-sys = "0.15.2"
+ libloading = "0.8.0"
+ memchr = "2.6.2"
+ miow = "0.6.0"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/cargo/template b/srcpkgs/cargo/template
index 315a204429f..208c18818d5 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/cargo/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/cargo/template
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Template file for 'cargo'
 pkgname=cargo
-version=1.73.0
+version=1.74.0
 revision=1
-_cargo_revision=0.74.0
+_cargo_revision=0.75.0
 build_helper=rust
 hostmakedepends="cargo-bootstrap rust python3 curl pkg-config zlib-devel"
 makedepends="rust libcurl-devel openssl-devel"
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
 license="MIT, Apache-2.0"
 homepage="https://crates.io/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/archive/refs/tags/${_cargo_revision}.tar.gz"
-checksum=a7ed5ec806f2b334f194380584e17538cc173ef18ec3fba4d7967dc5c1bd7565
+checksum=d6b9512bca4b4d692a242188bfe83e1b696c44903007b7b48a56b287d01c063b
 replaces="cargo-tree>=0"
 
 build_options="static bindist"