diff --git a/sagemaker-core/pyproject.toml b/sagemaker-core/pyproject.toml
index 1ba71b594c..eb2b5c4087 100644
--- a/sagemaker-core/pyproject.toml
+++ b/sagemaker-core/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "requests>=2.20.0,<3.0.0",
     "attrs>=20.3.0",
     "packaging>=20.0",
-    "protobuf>=3.12,<5.0",
+    "protobuf>=3.12,<7.0.0",
     "pandas>=1.0.0",
     "numpy>=1.9.0",
     # Dependencies migrated from sagemaker_utils
diff --git a/sagemaker-serve/src/sagemaker/serve/utils/conda_in_process.yml b/sagemaker-serve/src/sagemaker/serve/utils/conda_in_process.yml
index 162ee2bc5b..687467f157 100644
--- a/sagemaker-serve/src/sagemaker/serve/utils/conda_in_process.yml
+++ b/sagemaker-serve/src/sagemaker/serve/utils/conda_in_process.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ dependencies:
     - cloudpickle==2.2.1
     - google-pasta
     - numpy>=2.0.0,<3.0
-    - protobuf>=3.12,<5.0
+    - protobuf>=3.12,<7.0
     - smdebug_rulesconfig==1.0.1
     - importlib-metadata>=1.4.0,<7.0
     - packaging>=20.0