diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 93595562..a241d5cf 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
         <flink.artifact.name>beam-runners-flink-1.13</flink.artifact.name>
         <java.version>11</java.version>
         <junit.version>4.13</junit.version>
-        <kafka.version>2.6.0</kafka.version>
+        <kafka.version>2.6.3</kafka.version>
         <log4j.version>2.17.1</log4j.version>
         <opennms.version>26.1.0-SNAPSHOT</opennms.version>
         <protobuf.version>3.11.4</protobuf.version>