diff --git a/client/verta/requirements.txt b/client/verta/requirements.txt
index addf8ef366..dfcae55841 100644
--- a/client/verta/requirements.txt
+++ b/client/verta/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ cloudpickle >= 1.0, < 3.0
 googleapis-common-protos >= 1.5, < 2.0
 importlib-metadata >= 3.7.0
 jsonschema >= 4.17.3
-protobuf >= 3.8, < 4.0
+protobuf >= 5.27.2, < 6.0
 pytimeparse >= 1.1.8, < 2.0
 pyyaml >= 5.1, < 7.0
 requests >= 2.25, < 3.0