diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5777eb222..f23d58d4a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Inspired from [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 - Bumps `com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations` from 2.17.0 to 2.17.2
 - Bumps `com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind` from 2.17.0 to 2.17.2
 - Bumps `commons-logging:commons-logging` from 1.3.1 to 1.3.3
-- Bumps `com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java` from 4.26.1 to 4.27.2
+- Bumps `com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java` from 4.26.1 to 4.27.3
 - Bumps `io.netty:netty-all` from 4.1.109.Final to 4.1.112.Final
 - Bumps `jakarta.servlet:jakarta.servlet-api` from 6.0.0 to 6.1.0
 - Bumps `commons-codec:commons-codec` from 1.17.0 to 1.17.1
diff --git a/spark/core/build.gradle b/spark/core/build.gradle
index 35611d8a1..f43f633b3 100644
--- a/spark/core/build.gradle
+++ b/spark/core/build.gradle
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ sparkVariants {
             add(variant.configuration('compileOnly'), "com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-scala_${variant.scalaMajorVersion}:2.9.10")
             add(variant.configuration('compileOnly'), "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.17.2")
             add(variant.configuration('compileOnly'), "com.google.guava:guava:23.0")
-            add(variant.configuration('compileOnly'), "com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:4.27.2")
+            add(variant.configuration('compileOnly'), "com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:4.27.3")
             add(variant.configuration('compileOnly'), "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:2.0.13")
 
             add(variant.configuration('test', 'implementation'), project(":test:shared"))