Merge pull request #3708 from Babak-abd/CVE-PROTOBUF-FIX

upgrade protobuf

Author: k8s-ci-robot

pom.xml

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     <snakeyaml.version>2.2</snakeyaml.version>
     <slf4j.version>2.0.13</slf4j.version>
     <caffeine.version>2.9.3</caffeine.version>
-    <protobuf.version>3.25.3</protobuf.version>
+    <protobuf.version>3.25.5</protobuf.version>
     <junit.version>4.13</junit.version>
     <bucket4j.version>7.6.0</bucket4j.version>
     <bouncycastle.version>1.78.1</bouncycastle.version>