diff --git a/apps/nytlabels-annotator/src/crappy-predict-news-labels/requirements.txt b/apps/nytlabels-annotator/src/crappy-predict-news-labels/requirements.txt
index bbe84a2b6d..5051233692 100644
--- a/apps/nytlabels-annotator/src/crappy-predict-news-labels/requirements.txt
+++ b/apps/nytlabels-annotator/src/crappy-predict-news-labels/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ joblib==1.0.0
 nltk==3.6.5
 numpy==1.19.5
 onnxruntime==1.8.1
-protobuf==3.14.0
+protobuf==3.15.0
 regex==2020.11.13
 six==1.15.0
 tqdm==4.56.0