diff --git a/src/testing/fedhub_automation/takserver_config_files/base_takserver_config/pytak_config_files/load_test/requirements.txt b/src/testing/fedhub_automation/takserver_config_files/base_takserver_config/pytak_config_files/load_test/requirements.txt
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index fe707f433..0bd1abd91
--- a/src/testing/fedhub_automation/takserver_config_files/base_takserver_config/pytak_config_files/load_test/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/testing/fedhub_automation/takserver_config_files/base_takserver_config/pytak_config_files/load_test/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 lxml==4.9.2
-protobuf==3.11.3
+protobuf==5.29.6
 pyOpenSSL==23.1.1
 PyYAML==5.1
 requests==2.26