diff --git a/python/requirements.txt b/python/requirements.txt
index 32d5ad2a..23258545 100644
--- a/python/requirements.txt
+++ b/python/requirements.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ sqlalchemy==1.3.0
 h5py==2.9.0
 vincent==0.4.0
 beautifulsoup4==4.7.0
-protobuf==3.7.0
+protobuf==3.15.0
 xlrd
 jupyterlab
 bitarray==0.8.3
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