diff --git a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.16.0.md b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.16.0.md
index e432e379b..56555472c 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.16.0.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.16.0.md
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ transaction](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/6730).
 
 * [Fixed a bug where cookie authentication with Tor would fail if the cookie
   path contained spaces](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/6829).
-  Now it parses Tor control port messages correctly.
+  [With the module updated](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/6836),
+  `lnd` now parses Tor control port messages correctly.
 
 ## `lncli`
 * [Add an `insecure` flag to skip tls auth as well as a `metadata` string slice
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 79c7fdd46..caf9e614d 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/queue v1.1.0
 	github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/ticker v1.1.0
 	github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tlv v1.0.3
-	github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tor v1.0.1
+	github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tor v1.0.2
 	github.com/ltcsuite/ltcd v0.0.0-20190101042124-f37f8bf35796
 	github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.43
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.11.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index ab09cd58a..05950e526 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -493,8 +493,8 @@ github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tlv v1.0.2/go.mod h1:fICAfsqk1IOsC1J7G9IdsWX1EqW
 github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tlv v1.0.3 h1:0xBZcPuXagP6f7TY/RnLNR4igE21ov6qUdTr5NyvhhI=
 github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tlv v1.0.3/go.mod h1:dzR/aZetBri+ZY/fHbwV06fNn/3UID6htQzbHfREFdo=
 github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tor v1.0.0/go.mod h1:RDtaAdwfAm+ONuPYwUhNIH1RAvKPv+75lHPOegUcz64=
-github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tor v1.0.1 h1:A11FrpU0Y//g+fA827W4VnjOeoIvExONdchlLX8wYkA=
-github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tor v1.0.1/go.mod h1:RDtaAdwfAm+ONuPYwUhNIH1RAvKPv+75lHPOegUcz64=
+github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tor v1.0.2 h1:GlumRkKdzXCX0AIvIi2UXKpeY1Q4RT7Lz/CfGpKSLrU=
+github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tor v1.0.2/go.mod h1:RDtaAdwfAm+ONuPYwUhNIH1RAvKPv+75lHPOegUcz64=
 github.com/ltcsuite/ltcd v0.0.0-20190101042124-f37f8bf35796 h1:sjOGyegMIhvgfq5oaue6Td+hxZuf3tDC8lAPrFldqFw=
 github.com/ltcsuite/ltcd v0.0.0-20190101042124-f37f8bf35796/go.mod h1:3p7ZTf9V1sNPI5H8P3NkTFF4LuwMdPl2DodF60qAKqY=
 github.com/ltcsuite/ltcutil v0.0.0-20181217130922-17f3b04680b6/go.mod h1:8Vg/LTOO0KYa/vlHWJ6XZAevPQThGH5sufO0Hrou/lA=