diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20230509-123159.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20230509-123159.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0257e4b1993
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20230509-123159.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+kind: Fixes
+body: Pin protobuf to greater than 4.0.0
+time: 2023-05-09T12:31:59.019718-04:00
+custom:
+  Author: gshank
+  Issue: "7565"
diff --git a/core/setup.py b/core/setup.py
index 8acc8517e71..abb9d9db37e 100644
--- a/core/setup.py
+++ b/core/setup.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
         "typing-extensions>=3.7.4",
         "werkzeug>=1,<3",
         "pathspec>=0.9,<0.12",
-        "protobuf>=3.18.3",
+        "protobuf>=4.0.0",
         "pytz>=2015.7",
         # the following are all to match snowflake-connector-python
         "requests<3.0.0",
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 4920117ffbb..033d798205b 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ipdb
 mypy==0.981
 pip-tools
 pre-commit
-protobuf
+protobuf>=4.0.0
 pytest
 pytest-cov
 pytest-csv