diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 27effb5ffe0f..29558f9e80fe 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
     <netty.version>3.4.0.Final</netty.version>
     <parquet.version>1.3.2</parquet.version>
     <pig.version>0.12.0</pig.version>
-    <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
+    <protobuf.version>3.25.5</protobuf.version>
     <stax.version>1.0.1</stax.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.5</slf4j.version>
     <ST4.version>4.0.4</ST4.version>