diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 08d6dc3412da..ba161cddb273 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
     <netty.version>4.0.23.Final</netty.version>
     <parquet.version>1.6.0</parquet.version>
     <pig.version>0.12.0</pig.version>
-    <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
+    <protobuf.version>3.16.3</protobuf.version>
     <stax.version>1.0.1</stax.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.5</slf4j.version>
     <ST4.version>4.0.4</ST4.version>