diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 932e66fa9eb..56f2632e6b4 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ http_archive(
 # Define before rules_proto, otherwise we receive the version of com_google_protobuf from there
 http_archive(
     name = "com_google_protobuf",
-    sha256 = "3b8bf6e96499a744bd014c60b58f797715a758093abf859f1d902194b8e1f8c9",
-    strip_prefix = "protobuf-28.1",
-    urls = ["https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/archive/v28.1.tar.gz"],
+    sha256 = "b2340aa47faf7ef10a0328190319d3f3bee1b24f426d4ce8f4253b6f27ce16db",
+    strip_prefix = "protobuf-28.2",
+    urls = ["https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/archive/v28.2.tar.gz"],
 )
 
 http_archive(