diff --git a/dolphinscheduler-bom/pom.xml b/dolphinscheduler-bom/pom.xml
index af622b1a86..b3050b86b0 100644
--- a/dolphinscheduler-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/dolphinscheduler-bom/pom.xml
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@
         <fabric8.client.version>6.0.0</fabric8.client.version>
         <casdoor.version>1.6.0</casdoor.version>
         <azure-sdk-bom.version>1.2.10</azure-sdk-bom.version>
+        <protobuf.version>3.17.2</protobuf.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencyManagement>
@@ -888,6 +889,12 @@
                 <artifactId>snowflake-jdbc</artifactId>
                 <version>${snowflake-jdbc.version}</version>
             </dependency>
+
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
+                <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
+                <version>${protobuf.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
         </dependencies>
     </dependencyManagement>
     <profiles>
diff --git a/dolphinscheduler-dist/release-docs/LICENSE b/dolphinscheduler-dist/release-docs/LICENSE
index e3b49541d7..6f5b8dace7 100644
--- a/dolphinscheduler-dist/release-docs/LICENSE
+++ b/dolphinscheduler-dist/release-docs/LICENSE
@@ -578,7 +578,6 @@ The text of each license is also included at licenses/LICENSE-[project].txt.
     jsch 0.1.42: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.jcraft/jsch/0.1.42, BSD
     leveldbjni-all 1.8: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.fusesource.leveldbjni/leveldbjni-all/1.8, BSD 3-clause
     postgresql 42.4.1: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.postgresql/postgresql/42.4.1, BSD 2-clause
-    protobuf-java 2.5.0: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java/2.5.0, BSD 2-clause
     paranamer 2.3: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.thoughtworks.paranamer/paranamer/2.3, BSD
     re2j 1.1: https://github.com/google/re2j/blob/re2j-1.1/LICENSE, BSD 3-clause
     stax2-api 4.2.1: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.codehaus.woodstox/stax2-api/4.2.1, BSD
diff --git a/tools/dependencies/known-dependencies.txt b/tools/dependencies/known-dependencies.txt
index 3137fa83da..5d36636a86 100644
--- a/tools/dependencies/known-dependencies.txt
+++ b/tools/dependencies/known-dependencies.txt
@@ -257,7 +257,6 @@ poi-ooxml-schemas-4.1.2.jar
 postgresql-42.4.1.jar
 presto-jdbc-0.238.1.jar
 profiles-2.17.282.jar
-protobuf-java-2.5.0.jar
 protocol-core-2.17.282.jar
 protostuff-api-1.7.2.jar
 protostuff-collectionschema-1.7.2.jar