diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 618152c..79218c1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 aospdtgen>=1.2.1
 twrpdtgen>=2.0.0
 extract-dtb>=1.2.3
-protobuf>=3.20.0
+protobuf>=7.36.2
 pycryptodome>=4.3.0
 requests>=2.28.0
 urllib3>=2.8.0