diff --git a/spark/core/build.gradle b/spark/core/build.gradle
index c44799d05..deb4c01f2 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:2.15.2")
             add(variant.configuration('compileOnly'), "com.google.guava:guava:23.0")
-            add(variant.configuration('compileOnly'), "com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.23.4")
+            add(variant.configuration('compileOnly'), "com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.24.0")
             add(variant.configuration('compileOnly'), "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:2.0.7")
 
             add(variant.configuration('test', 'implementation'), project(":test:shared"))