diff --git a/training/tf/requirements.txt b/training/tf/requirements.txt
index 9bb7afad4..0d3639244 100644
--- a/training/tf/requirements.txt
+++ b/training/tf/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ futures==3.1.1
 html5lib==0.9999999
 Markdown==2.6.9
 numpy==1.13.3
-protobuf==3.4.0
+protobuf==5.29.6
 scipy==1.0.0
 six==1.11.0
 tensorflow>=1.12.1