diff --git a/packages/backend/native-utils/migration/Cargo.toml b/packages/backend/native-utils/migration/Cargo.toml
index 3813eccd80..4dee156ef3 100644
--- a/packages/backend/native-utils/migration/Cargo.toml
+++ b/packages/backend/native-utils/migration/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ default = []
 convert = ["dep:native-utils"]
 
 [dependencies]
-async-std = { version = "1", features = ["attributes", "tokio1"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.96"
 native-utils = { path = "../", optional = true }
 indicatif = { version = "0.17.4", features = ["tokio"] }
@@ -21,6 +20,7 @@ tokio = { version = "1.28.2", features = ["full"] }
 futures = "0.3.28"
 serde_yaml = "0.9.21"
 serde = { version = "1.0.163", features = ["derive"] }
+urlencoding = "2.1.2"
 
 [dependencies.sea-orm-migration]
 version = "0.11.0"
diff --git a/packages/backend/native-utils/migration/src/main.rs b/packages/backend/native-utils/migration/src/main.rs
index a845a41ff4..f0f761f657 100644
--- a/packages/backend/native-utils/migration/src/main.rs
+++ b/packages/backend/native-utils/migration/src/main.rs
@@ -1,24 +1,29 @@
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use std::env;
 use std::fs;
+use urlencoding::encode;
 
 use sea_orm_migration::prelude::*;
 
 #[cfg(feature = "convert")]
 mod vec_to_json;
 
-#[async_std::main]
+#[tokio::main]
 async fn main() {
     let cwd = env::current_dir().unwrap();
     let yml = fs::File::open(cwd.join("../../.config/default.yml"))
-        .expect("Unable to read '.config/default.yml'");
-    let config: Config = serde_yaml::from_reader(yml).expect("Unable to parse");
+        .expect("Failed to open '.config/default.yml'");
+    let config: Config = serde_yaml::from_reader(yml).expect("Failed to parse yaml");
 
     env::set_var(
         "DATABASE_URL",
         format!(
             "postgres://{}:{}@{}:{}/{}",
-            config.db.user, config.db.pass, config.db.host, config.db.port, config.db.db
+            config.db.user,
+            encode(&config.db.pass),
+            config.db.host,
+            config.db.port,
+            config.db.db,
         ),
     );
 
diff --git a/packages/backend/src/db/postgre.ts b/packages/backend/src/db/postgre.ts
index 9ffaf596c8..0fa5fdff67 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/db/postgre.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/db/postgre.ts
@@ -222,7 +222,9 @@ export const db = new DataSource({
 
 export async function initDb(force = false) {
 	await nativeInitDatabase(
-		`postgres://${config.db.user}:${config.db.pass}@${config.db.host}:${config.db.port}/${config.db.db}`,
+		`postgres://${config.db.user}:${encodeURIComponent(config.db.pass)}@${
+			config.db.host
+		}:${config.db.port}/${config.db.db}`,
 	);
 	if (force) {
 		if (db.isInitialized) {