diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/pom.xml b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/pom.xml
index 096c0362ee4e..e2e1721b3a7b 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/pom.xml
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/pom.xml
@@ -67,6 +67,31 @@
             <artifactId>java-linstor</artifactId>
             <version>${cs.java-linstor.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${cs.jackson.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
+            <version>${cs.jackson.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+            <version>${cs.jackson.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
+            <version>${cs.jackson.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-module-jaxb-annotations</artifactId>
+            <version>${cs.jackson.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
             <artifactId>jna</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b51ed12fdedd..6985108302df 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@
         <org.springframework.version>5.3.26</org.springframework.version>
         <cs.ini.version>0.5.4</cs.ini.version>
         <cs.caffeine.version>3.1.7</cs.caffeine.version>
+        <cs.protobuf.version>3.25.5</cs.protobuf.version>
     </properties>
 
     <distributionManagement>
@@ -727,6 +728,17 @@
                 <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
                 <version>2.0.2</version>
             </dependency>
+            <!-- enforced protobuf version here as mysql-connector-java is pulling older version (3.19.3) -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
+                <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
+                <version>${cs.protobuf.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
+                <artifactId>protobuf-java-util</artifactId>
+                <version>${cs.protobuf.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>com.linbit.linstor.api</groupId>
                 <artifactId>java-linstor</artifactId>
diff --git a/utils/pom.xml b/utils/pom.xml
index 6c3673646002..6b8b1249423c 100755
--- a/utils/pom.xml
+++ b/utils/pom.xml
@@ -196,6 +196,11 @@
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
             <version>${cs.jackson.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-cbor</artifactId>
+            <version>${cs.jackson.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>