diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/PR#4460-update-com-google-protobuf-to-v4-35-0-branch-9x.yml b/changelog/unreleased/PR#4460-update-com-google-protobuf-to-v4-35-0-branch-9x.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a1830597a4a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/PR#4460-update-com-google-protobuf-to-v4-35-0-branch-9x.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+title: Update com.google.protobuf:* to v4.35.0 (branch_9x)
+type: dependency_update
+authors:
+- name: solrbot
+links:
+- name: PR#4460
+  url: https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/4460
diff --git a/solr/licenses/protobuf-java-4.34.1.jar.sha1 b/solr/licenses/protobuf-java-4.34.1.jar.sha1
deleted file mode 100644
index 97404fe07808..000000000000
--- a/solr/licenses/protobuf-java-4.34.1.jar.sha1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-e3b07cd3be66ec918b9fa4db9863c86d5eeea891
diff --git a/solr/licenses/protobuf-java-4.35.0.jar.sha1 b/solr/licenses/protobuf-java-4.35.0.jar.sha1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f830f2bbdcaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/licenses/protobuf-java-4.35.0.jar.sha1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+6d5d7c2261b26586e772f7fd2d27716272ef7bdd
diff --git a/solr/licenses/protobuf-java-util-4.34.1.jar.sha1 b/solr/licenses/protobuf-java-util-4.34.1.jar.sha1
deleted file mode 100644
index e3e01d23cde0..000000000000
--- a/solr/licenses/protobuf-java-util-4.34.1.jar.sha1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-229b622286699e974977b347e188138519241a37
diff --git a/solr/licenses/protobuf-java-util-4.35.0.jar.sha1 b/solr/licenses/protobuf-java-util-4.35.0.jar.sha1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f5062d2ee4c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/licenses/protobuf-java-util-4.35.0.jar.sha1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+d83c7e6716d9d3a1893f4c978c84e5220cb1d751
diff --git a/versions.lock b/versions.lock
index 659611f7d411..679b0259e920 100644
--- a/versions.lock
+++ b/versions.lock
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ com.google.http-client:google-http-client-gson:1.44.2 (7 constraints: 68702d4e)
 com.google.http-client:google-http-client-jackson2:1.44.2 (1 constraints: 1f1009a6)
 com.google.j2objc:j2objc-annotations:3.1 (4 constraints: cb35bfba)
 com.google.oauth-client:google-oauth-client:1.36.0 (2 constraints: b720ee75)
-com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:4.34.1 (9 constraints: 4483fb93)
-com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java-util:4.34.1 (4 constraints: 79302007)
+com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:4.35.0 (9 constraints: 4483fd93)
+com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java-util:4.35.0 (4 constraints: 79302207)
 com.google.re2j:re2j:1.8 (2 constraints: 3a140270)
 com.googlecode.json-simple:json-simple:1.1.1 (1 constraints: d90f7798)
 com.helger:profiler:1.1.1 (1 constraints: e21053b8)
diff --git a/versions.props b/versions.props
index 9696656c75ea..b5abbad482e1 100644
--- a/versions.props
+++ b/versions.props
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ com.github.stephenc.jcip:jcip-annotations=1.0-1
 com.google.cloud:google-cloud-bom=0.224.0
 com.google.errorprone:*=2.31.0
 com.google.guava:guava=33.6.0-jre
-com.google.protobuf:*=4.34.1
+com.google.protobuf:*=4.35.0
 com.google.re2j:re2j=1.8
 com.j256.simplemagic:simplemagic=1.17
 com.jayway.jsonpath:json-path=2.9.0