diff --git a/general_python/install/requirements.txt b/general_python/install/requirements.txt
index 2ee2d22..b848f63 100644
--- a/general_python/install/requirements.txt
+++ b/general_python/install/requirements.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ greenlet==0.4.16
 grpcio==1.31.0
 httplib2==0.19.0
 idna==2.10
-protobuf==3.15.0
+protobuf==3.18.3
 pandas-datareader==0.9.0
 pyasn1==0.4.8
 pyasn1-modules==0.2.8