diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4f96378bb..dc072a8bd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Inspired from [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 - Bumps `commons-logging:commons-logging` from 1.3.5 to 1.3.6
 - Bumps `com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind` from 2.21.1 to 2.21.3
 - Bumps `jakarta.xml.bind:jakarta.xml.bind-api` from 4.0.2 to 4.0.5
-- Bumps `com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java` from 4.34.0 to 4.34.1 in /spark/core
+- Bumps `com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java` from 4.34.0 to 4.34.1
 - Bumps `software.amazon.awssdk:http-client-spi` from 2.42.4 to 2.42.17
 - Bumps `commons-codec:commons-codec` from 1.21.0 to 1.22.0
 - Bumps `software.amazon.awssdk:identity-spi` from 2.42.18 to 2.44.0
diff --git a/spark/sql-40/build.gradle b/spark/sql-40/build.gradle
index 831c868b7..34a199b54 100644
--- a/spark/sql-40/build.gradle
+++ b/spark/sql-40/build.gradle
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ sparkVariants {
             }
             add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "commons-logging:commons-logging:1.3.6")
             add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "jakarta.xml.bind:jakarta.xml.bind-api:4.0.5")
-            add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:4.33.5")
+            add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:4.34.1")
             add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "org.apache.spark:spark-catalyst_${variant.scalaMajorVersion}:$variant.sparkVersion")
             add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "org.apache.spark:spark-yarn_${variant.scalaMajorVersion}:$variant.sparkVersion") {
                 exclude group: 'org.apache.hadoop'
diff --git a/spark/sql-40/licenses/protobuf-java-4.33.5.jar.sha1 b/spark/sql-40/licenses/protobuf-java-4.33.5.jar.sha1
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d8f3cd6a..000000000
--- a/spark/sql-40/licenses/protobuf-java-4.33.5.jar.sha1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-ec5069e07936941fa67ab8f78242fb91262c3dd9
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spark/sql-40/licenses/protobuf-java-4.34.1.jar.sha1 b/spark/sql-40/licenses/protobuf-java-4.34.1.jar.sha1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7d9d14376
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spark/sql-40/licenses/protobuf-java-4.34.1.jar.sha1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+e3b07cd3be66ec918b9fa4db9863c86d5eeea891
\ No newline at end of file