diff --git a/bazel/protobuf.patch b/bazel/protobuf.patch
index a8c5e959ddbe8..6c68b2d8aedc3 100644
--- a/bazel/protobuf.patch
+++ b/bazel/protobuf.patch
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ index 1690d4219..8a7f1bf14 100644
  ################################################################################
  # Protobuf Runtime Library
 diff --git a/python/google/protobuf/__init__.py b/python/google/protobuf/__init__.py
-index 68087e550..0a2d63e73 100644
+index 52101b6fe..60f06aba2 100644
 --- a/python/google/protobuf/__init__.py
 +++ b/python/google/protobuf/__init__.py
 @@ -31,3 +31,9 @@
  # Copyright 2007 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  
- __version__ = '3.19.0'
+ __version__ = '3.19.1'
 +
 +if __name__ != '__main__':
 +  try:
diff --git a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
index 1de14053a2e88..87ca7d1f4c95b 100644
--- a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
+++ b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
@@ -626,12 +626,12 @@ REPOSITORY_LOCATIONS_SPEC = dict(
         project_name = "Protocol Buffers",
         project_desc = "Language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data",
         project_url = "https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers",
-        version = "3.19.0",
-        sha256 = "7b8d3ac3d6591ce9d25f90faba80da78d0ef620fda711702367f61a40ba98429",
+        version = "3.19.1",
+        sha256 = "80631d5a18d51daa3a1336e340001ad4937e926762f21144c62d26fe2a8d71fe",
         strip_prefix = "protobuf-{version}",
         urls = ["https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v{version}/protobuf-all-{version}.tar.gz"],
         use_category = ["dataplane_core", "controlplane"],
-        release_date = "2021-10-20",
+        release_date = "2021-10-29",
         cpe = "cpe:2.3:a:google:protobuf:*",
     ),
     grpc_httpjson_transcoding = dict(