diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f134a71..711144b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ pexpect==4.2.1
 pickleshare==0.7.4
 Pillow==4.2.1
 prompt-toolkit==1.0.15
-protobuf==3.3.0
+protobuf==3.18.3
 ptyprocess==0.5.2
 Pygments==2.2.0
 pyparsing==2.2.0