diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 350dbd3..f8f3e41 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -39,11 +39,20 @@ bazel_dep(name = "boost.signals2", version = "1.87.0")
 bazel_dep(name = "boost.tuple", version = "1.87.0")
 
 # thirdparty
-bazel_dep(name = "abseil-cpp", version = "20240116.2", repo_name = "com_google_absl")
+bazel_dep(name = "abseil-cpp", version = "20250127.1", repo_name = "com_google_absl")
+single_version_override(
+    module_name = "abseil-cpp",
+    # locked at 20250127.1 to be compatible with protobuf
+    # In newer versions, the target `if_constexpr` in `absl/utility/BUILD.bazel`
+    # that protobuf depends on has been removed or migrated.
+    version = "20250127.1",
+)
+
 bazel_dep(name = "cpplint", version = "2.0.2")
 bazel_dep(name = "eigen", version = "4.0.0-20241125.bcr.2")
 bazel_dep(name = "nlohmann_json", version = "3.12.0", repo_name = "com_github_nlohmann_json")
 bazel_dep(name = "gflags", version = "2.2.2", repo_name = "com_github_gflags_gflags")
+
 # Note: build gflags as a shared library and make the third-party(pre-compiled
 # library such as paddleinference) link to it to keep only one copy of gflags
 # in one process