diff --git a/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt b/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt
index f2e5b97c35..34fe2372ed 100644
--- a/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt
+++ b/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http==1.25.0
 opentelemetry-proto==1.25.0
 opentelemetry-sdk==1.25.0
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions==0.46b0
-protobuf==3.19.5
+protobuf==4.25.8
 requests==2.32.3
 six==1.16.0
 urllib3==1.26.19