diff --git a/pretraining/requirements.txt b/pretraining/requirements.txt
index a7d9ca3..a74cf5b 100644
--- a/pretraining/requirements.txt
+++ b/pretraining/requirements.txt
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ portalocker==1.7.0
 prometheus-client==0.7.1
 promise==2.3
 prompt-toolkit==3.0.4
-protobuf==3.11.3
+protobuf==3.18.3
 psutil==5.7.0
 ptyprocess==0.6.0
 pyasn1==0.4.8