diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 307ad3f5e..4515876c6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ requests
 pyyaml
 jinja2
 deprecation
-protobuf==3.19.4
+protobuf==3.20.0
 watchdog
 
 # some java processing requires xml handling