diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2942626a0ce..ff7edc7236f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
         <jsr.version>1.1</jsr.version>
         <junit.version>4.13.2</junit.version>
         <kafka.scala.binary.version>2.12</kafka.scala.binary.version>
-        <kafka.version>2.8.2</kafka.version>
+        <kafka.version>3.7.1</kafka.version>
         <keycloak.version>6.0.1</keycloak.version>
         <logback.version>1.3.14</logback.version>
         <lucene-solr.version>8.11.3</lucene-solr.version>