diff --git a/infra/cifuzz/requirements.txt b/infra/cifuzz/requirements.txt
index cf61a3f4cbbd..f30e9703571c 100644
--- a/infra/cifuzz/requirements.txt
+++ b/infra/cifuzz/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 clusterfuzz==2.5.9
 requests==2.28.0
-protobuf==3.20.2
+protobuf==7.34.0rc1