diff --git a/miscs/llava_repr_requirements.txt b/miscs/llava_repr_requirements.txt
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index c09b6f5bd..fedf4d747
--- a/miscs/llava_repr_requirements.txt
+++ b/miscs/llava_repr_requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ openai==1.13.3
 packaging==23.2
 pandas==2.2.1
 Pillow==10.2.0
-protobuf==4.25.3
+protobuf==4.25.8
 pycocoevalcap==1.2
 pycocotools==2.0.7
 pytablewriter==1.2.0
diff --git a/miscs/tinyllava_repr_requirements.txt b/miscs/tinyllava_repr_requirements.txt
index b6ab1cb19..e9a623243 100644
--- a/miscs/tinyllava_repr_requirements.txt
+++ b/miscs/tinyllava_repr_requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ packaging==23.2
 pandas==2.2.1
 peft==0.10.0
 Pillow==10.2.0
-protobuf==4.25.3
+protobuf==4.25.8
 pycocoevalcap==1.2
 pycocotools==2.0.7
 pytablewriter==1.2.0
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index 2199aadc9..0b176cb03
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "decord; platform_system != 'Darwin'",
     "eva-decord; platform_system == 'Darwin'",
     "zss",
-    "protobuf==3.20",
+    "protobuf==4.25.8",
     "sentence_transformers",
 ]