diff --git a/examples/E30_flink-kafscale-demo/pom.xml b/examples/E30_flink-kafscale-demo/pom.xml
index 0f303bc..1f86ad1 100644
--- a/examples/E30_flink-kafscale-demo/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/E30_flink-kafscale-demo/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <maven.compiler.release>11</maven.compiler.release>
     <flink.version>1.18.1</flink.version>
     <flink.kafka.connector.version>3.1.0-1.18</flink.kafka.connector.version>
-    <kafka.clients.version>3.9.1</kafka.clients.version>
+    <kafka.clients.version>3.9.2</kafka.clients.version>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <main.class>com.example.kafscale.flink.WordCountJob</main.class>
   </properties>