diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2b9bbe5018f3..c0324da05786 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2247,7 +2247,17 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "0b82eaa1d779e9a4bc1c3217db8ffbeabaae1dca241bf70183242128d48681cd"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
- "prost-derive",
+ "prost-derive 0.11.9",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "prost"
+version = "0.12.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d0f5d036824e4761737860779c906171497f6d55681139d8312388f8fe398922"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "prost-derive 0.12.4",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2264,7 +2274,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "multimap",
  "petgraph",
  "prettyplease",
- "prost",
+ "prost 0.11.9",
  "prost-types",
  "regex",
  "syn 1.0.109",
@@ -2285,13 +2295,26 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 1.0.109",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "prost-derive"
+version = "0.12.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "19de2de2a00075bf566bee3bd4db014b11587e84184d3f7a791bc17f1a8e9e48"
+dependencies = [
+ "anyhow",
+ "itertools",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.57",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "prost-types"
 version = "0.11.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "213622a1460818959ac1181aaeb2dc9c7f63df720db7d788b3e24eacd1983e13"
 dependencies = [
- "prost",
+ "prost 0.11.9",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3044,7 +3067,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "nix",
  "once_cell",
  "pin-project",
- "prost",
+ "prost 0.12.4",
  "prost-build",
  "rand",
  "regex",
diff --git a/crates/shadowsocks-service/Cargo.toml b/crates/shadowsocks-service/Cargo.toml
index 72577c9fd2d4..ac602c8fa8f5 100644
--- a/crates/shadowsocks-service/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/shadowsocks-service/Cargo.toml
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ byte_string = "1.0"
 byteorder = "1.5"
 rand = { version = "0.8", features = ["small_rng"] }
 sled = { version = "0.34.7", features = ["compression"], optional = true }
-prost = { version = "0.11.9", optional = true }
+prost = { version = "0.12.4", optional = true }
 
 futures = "0.3"
 tokio = { version = "1.5", features = [