diff --git a/dev-python/grpcio/grpcio-1.83.0.ebuild b/dev-python/grpcio/grpcio-1.83.0.ebuild
index 6632c4fcf629e..e219453da67ff 100644
--- a/dev-python/grpcio/grpcio-1.83.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/grpcio/grpcio-1.83.0.ebuild
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ BDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/cython-3.1.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	test? (
 		dev-python/coverage[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/protobuf-6.33.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/protobuf-7.35.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	)
 "