diff --git a/services/image-rec-auto/requirements.txt b/services/image-rec-auto/requirements.txt
index 5743f28..ea4b75e 100644
--- a/services/image-rec-auto/requirements.txt
+++ b/services/image-rec-auto/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 inflect==4.1.0
-protobuf==3.13.0
+protobuf==3.18.3
 requests==2.24.0