diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e31e402..660bf3c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ pickleshare==0.7.5
 Pillow==7.1.2
 prometheus-client==0.8.0
 prompt-toolkit==3.0.5
-protobuf==3.12.2
+protobuf==3.18.3
 pydeck==0.4.0b2
 Pygments==2.6.1
 pyparsing==2.4.7