diff --git a/bboxdb-tools/pom.xml b/bboxdb-tools/pom.xml
index 66dea2f18..c7e270294 100644
--- a/bboxdb-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/bboxdb-tools/pom.xml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 		    <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
 		    <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
-		    <version>3.25.1</version>
+		    <version>3.25.3</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- Used by some experiments