diff --git a/services/event-processor/Cargo.lock b/services/event-processor/Cargo.lock
index 1cfc29cf..c80adfa8 100644
--- a/services/event-processor/Cargo.lock
+++ b/services/event-processor/Cargo.lock
@@ -1442,9 +1442,9 @@ checksum = "63b8176103e19a2643978565ca18b50549f6101881c443590420e4dc998a3c69"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rdkafka"
-version = "0.36.2"
+version = "0.39.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1beea247b9a7600a81d4cc33f659ce1a77e1988323d7d2809c7ed1c21f4c316d"
+checksum = "d7956f9ac12b5712e50372d9749a3102f4810a8d42481c5eae3748d36d585bcf"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-channel",
  "futures-util",
diff --git a/services/event-processor/Cargo.toml b/services/event-processor/Cargo.toml
index 9551e67f..8828af93 100644
--- a/services/event-processor/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/event-processor/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ bis-transport-policy = { path = "../../crates/bis-transport-policy" }
 # Native Kafka consumer/producer — requires librdkafka-dev in the Docker build image.
 # Enable with: cargo build --features kafka-native
 # Docker: RUN apt-get install -y librdkafka-dev cmake
-rdkafka = { version = "0.36", features = ["cmake-build", "ssl"], optional = true }
+rdkafka = { version = "0.39", features = ["cmake-build", "ssl"], optional = true }
 # Redis async client — for pub/sub fan-out and alert caching
 # Enable with: cargo build --features redis-pubsub
 redis = { version = "0.25", features = ["tokio-comp", "connection-manager"], optional = true }