diff --git a/images/nginx/Makefile b/images/nginx/Makefile
index 37d7f8199..6f050bde3 100644
--- a/images/nginx/Makefile
+++ b/images/nginx/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 # 0.0.0 shouldn't clobber any released builds
-TAG ?= 0.72
+TAG ?= 0.73
 REGISTRY ?= quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller
 ARCH ?= $(shell go env GOARCH)
 DOCKER ?= docker
diff --git a/images/nginx/rootfs/build.sh b/images/nginx/rootfs/build.sh
index 4627062a0..b73842f05 100755
--- a/images/nginx/rootfs/build.sh
+++ b/images/nginx/rootfs/build.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ set -o errexit
 set -o nounset
 set -o pipefail
 
-export NGINX_VERSION=1.15.7
+export NGINX_VERSION=1.15.8
 export NDK_VERSION=0.3.1rc1
 export SETMISC_VERSION=0.32
 export MORE_HEADERS_VERSION=0.33
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export LUA_UPSTREAM_VERSION=0.07
 export NGINX_INFLUXDB_VERSION=0e2cb6cbf850a29c81e44be9e33d9a15d45c50e8
 export GEOIP2_VERSION=3.2
 export NGINX_AJP_VERSION=bf6cd93f2098b59260de8d494f0f4b1f11a84627
-export LUAJIT_VERSION=c58fe79b870f1934479bf14fe8035fc3d9fdfde2
+export LUAJIT_VERSION=520d53a87dd44c637dddb6de313204211c2b212b
 
 export BUILD_PATH=/tmp/build
 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ mkdir --verbose -p "$BUILD_PATH"
 cd "$BUILD_PATH"
 
 # download, verify and extract the source files
-get_src 8f22ea2f6c0e0a221b6ddc02b6428a3ff708e2ad55f9361102b1c9f4142bdf93 \
+get_src a8bdafbca87eb99813ae4fcac1ad0875bf725ce19eb265d28268c309b2b40787 \
         "https://nginx.org/download/nginx-$NGINX_VERSION.tar.gz"
 
 get_src 49f50d4cd62b166bc1aaf712febec5e028d9f187cedbc27a610dfd01bdde2d36 \
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ get_src a77bf0d7cf6a9ba017d0dc973b1a58f13e48242dd3849c5e99c07d250667c44c \
 get_src d81b33129c6fb5203b571fa4d8394823bf473d8872c0357a1d0f14420b1483bd \
         "https://github.com/cloudflare/lua-resty-cookie/archive/v0.1.0.tar.gz"
 
-get_src 21dab7625a028d4560d0215c4bc3b82f6153344f933abb99dc9fd5f0d19519ab \
+get_src d04df883adb86c96a8e0fe6c404851b9c776840dbb524419c06ae3fac42c4e64 \
         "https://github.com/openresty/luajit2/archive/$LUAJIT_VERSION.tar.gz"
 
 get_src c673fcee37c1c4794f921b6710b09e8a0e1e58117aa788f798507d033f737192 \