diff --git a/user-init/examples/requirements.txt b/user-init/examples/requirements.txt
index ea90d7c..748efde 100644
--- a/user-init/examples/requirements.txt
+++ b/user-init/examples/requirements.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ MarkupSafe==2.1.5
 mpmath==1.3.0
 networkx==3.1
 packaging==25.0
-protobuf==3.20.3
+protobuf==4.25.8
 psutil==7.0.0
 py-cpuinfo==9.0.0
 pyparsing==3.1.4