diff --git a/licenses/protobuf-java-3.24.2.jar.sha1 b/licenses/protobuf-java-3.24.2.jar.sha1
deleted file mode 100644
index 323d76903..000000000
--- a/licenses/protobuf-java-3.24.2.jar.sha1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-032c103a142c2ed7b071966df5fa21eee68d68a0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/licenses/protobuf-java-3.24.4.jar.sha1 b/licenses/protobuf-java-3.24.4.jar.sha1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1188e78ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/licenses/protobuf-java-3.24.4.jar.sha1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+a773e5a3845e6baa5c4ede5532c426ebe6c53330
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spark/sql-20/build.gradle b/spark/sql-20/build.gradle
index d7c5a66bb..3b056bcc0 100644
--- a/spark/sql-20/build.gradle
+++ b/spark/sql-20/build.gradle
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ sparkVariants {
             }
             add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "commons-logging:commons-logging:1.2")
             add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:2.3.1")
-            add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.24.2")
+            add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.24.4")
             add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "org.apache.spark:spark-catalyst_${variant.scalaMajorVersion}:$variant.sparkVersion")
             add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "org.apache.spark:spark-yarn_${variant.scalaMajorVersion}:$variant.sparkVersion") {
                 exclude group: 'org.apache.hadoop'
diff --git a/spark/sql-20/licenses/protobuf-java-3.24.2.jar.sha1 b/spark/sql-20/licenses/protobuf-java-3.24.2.jar.sha1
deleted file mode 100644
index 323d76903..000000000
--- a/spark/sql-20/licenses/protobuf-java-3.24.2.jar.sha1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-032c103a142c2ed7b071966df5fa21eee68d68a0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spark/sql-20/licenses/protobuf-java-3.24.4.jar.sha1 b/spark/sql-20/licenses/protobuf-java-3.24.4.jar.sha1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1188e78ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spark/sql-20/licenses/protobuf-java-3.24.4.jar.sha1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+a773e5a3845e6baa5c4ede5532c426ebe6c53330
\ No newline at end of file