diff --git a/community-content/vertex-distributed-training/a3mega/llama-3-8b-nemo-pretraining/docker/requirements.txt b/community-content/vertex-distributed-training/a3mega/llama-3-8b-nemo-pretraining/docker/requirements.txt
index 00dc1e08b..f60903415 100644
--- a/community-content/vertex-distributed-training/a3mega/llama-3-8b-nemo-pretraining/docker/requirements.txt
+++ b/community-content/vertex-distributed-training/a3mega/llama-3-8b-nemo-pretraining/docker/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dllogger@git+https://github.com/NVIDIA/dllogger@v1.0.0
 
 # Fixing these libraries versions to avoid conflicting or broken packages.
 immutabledict==4.2.1
-protobuf==4.25.8
+protobuf==5.29.6
 opencv-python-headless==4.11.0.86
 docutils==0.16
 urllib3==2.6.3
diff --git a/community-content/vertex-distributed-training/a3mega/llama-3-8b-nemo-pretraining/requirements.txt b/community-content/vertex-distributed-training/a3mega/llama-3-8b-nemo-pretraining/requirements.txt
index 5d51ba47b..2b8c67f50 100644
--- a/community-content/vertex-distributed-training/a3mega/llama-3-8b-nemo-pretraining/requirements.txt
+++ b/community-content/vertex-distributed-training/a3mega/llama-3-8b-nemo-pretraining/requirements.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ packaging==25.0
 pathspec==0.12.1
 platformdirs==4.3.8
 proto-plus==1.26.1
-protobuf==5.29.4
+protobuf==5.29.6
 pyasn1==0.6.2
 pyasn1_modules==0.4.2
 pydantic==2.11.4