diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 82b73358c..b657ba465 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@
     <parquet.version>1.14.1</parquet.version>
     <powermock.version>2.0.9</powermock.version>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    <protobuf.version>4.27.5</protobuf.version>
     <shadeBase>net.snowflake.ingest.internal</shadeBase>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.36</slf4j.version>
     <snappy.version>1.1.10.5</snappy.version>