diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 862dd87..8649a6a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     <slf4j.version>1.7.21</slf4j.version>
     <logback.version>1.1.7</logback.version>
     <logback.logstash.version>5.1</logback.logstash.version>
-    <protobuf.version>3.8.0</protobuf.version>
+    <protobuf.version>3.16.3</protobuf.version>
     <kafka.version>2.1.1</kafka.version>
     <guava-retry.version>2.0.0</guava-retry.version>
     <mariadb.version>2.2.1</mariadb.version>