diff --git a/google-cloud-pubsublite/pom.xml b/google-cloud-pubsublite/pom.xml
index 882db1ba0..bd75b74ee 100644
--- a/google-cloud-pubsublite/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-pubsublite/pom.xml
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
       <artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
-      <version>3.7.0</version>
+      <version>3.9.2</version>
       <optional>true</optional>
     </dependency>