diff --git a/bazel/protobuf.patch b/bazel/protobuf.patch
index be4410024d84a..c34ac0ffe0dee 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 07a4d94fd..6cd7b8b62 100644
+index 9319c67f1..d85d53d4a 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__ = '3.19.3'
+ __version__ = '3.19.4'
 +
 +if __name__ != '__main__':
 +  try:
diff --git a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
index f6a909be205ab..1c7525834d96d 100644
--- a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
+++ b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
@@ -606,12 +606,12 @@ 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 = "3.19.3",
-        sha256 = "84cca73ed97abce159c381e682ba0237bc21952359b07d8d45dc7e6399edd923",
+        version = "3.19.4",
+        sha256 = "ba0650be1b169d24908eeddbe6107f011d8df0da5b1a5a4449a913b10e578faf",
         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 = "2022-01-11",
+        release_date = "2022-01-28",
         cpe = "cpe:2.3:a:google:protobuf:*",
     ),
     grpc_httpjson_transcoding = dict(