diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
index e55f6abb..48926afd 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
       <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
-      <version>2.6.1</version>
+      <version>3.11.4</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>