diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 19f9e3b6..e6bfeb65 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ requests==2.23.0
 youtube_dl==2020.5.29
 Pillow==7.1.1
 beautifulsoup4==4.9.0
-protobuf==3.11.3
+protobuf==3.12.2
 configparser==3.8.1
 wtforms==2.2.1
 cheroot==6.5.5