diff --git a/examples/cloud-datafusion-functions-plugins/pom.xml b/examples/cloud-datafusion-functions-plugins/pom.xml
index b24ecb6272d..5daa0915d7c 100644
--- a/examples/cloud-datafusion-functions-plugins/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/cloud-datafusion-functions-plugins/pom.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     <main.basedir>${project.basedir}</main.basedir>
     <google.cloud.bigquery.version>1.72.0</google.cloud.bigquery.version>
     <google.cloud.monitoring.version>1.72.0</google.cloud.monitoring.version>
-    <protobuf.java.version>3.7.1</protobuf.java.version>
+    <protobuf.java.version>3.16.3</protobuf.java.version>
     <google.cloud.storage.version>1.98.0</google.cloud.storage.version>
     <retrofit.version>2.6.0</retrofit.version>
     <okhttp.version>4.2.1</okhttp.version>