diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 58e6500478..e2c781334b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ google-api-core==1.17.0
 googleapis-common-protos==1.51.0
 jinja2==2.11.2
 MarkupSafe==1.1.1
-protobuf==3.11.3
+protobuf==3.12.1
 pypandoc==1.5
 PyYAML==5.3.1
 dataclasses==0.6
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