diff --git a/tools/ci_build/requirements.txt b/tools/ci_build/requirements.txt
index d04bea2ea4a81..4d3c8c13e3d9b 100644
--- a/tools/ci_build/requirements.txt
+++ b/tools/ci_build/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # packages used by transformers tool test
-protobuf==3.17.0
+protobuf==5.29.6
 numpy==1.21.0
 coloredlogs==15.0
 transformers==4.6.1