diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a3f8f6a751..93c112ef54 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
         <log4j2Version>2.23.1</log4j2Version>
         <apache.arrow.version>13.0.0</apache.arrow.version>
         <guava.version>33.1.0-jre</guava.version>
-        <protobuf3.version>3.25.3</protobuf3.version>
+        <protobuf3.version>4.26.0</protobuf3.version>
         <antlr.st4.version>4.3.4</antlr.st4.version>
         <log4j2.cachefile.transformer.version>2.15</log4j2.cachefile.transformer.version>
         <apache.httpclient.version>4.5.14</apache.httpclient.version>