diff --git a/external/kafka-0-10-sql/pom.xml b/external/kafka-0-10-sql/pom.xml
index 26707e1a064d6..95a99ac88412e 100644
--- a/external/kafka-0-10-sql/pom.xml
+++ b/external/kafka-0-10-sql/pom.xml
@@ -108,11 +108,11 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-minikdc</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <!-- Kafka embedded server uses Zookeeper 3.4.7 API -->
+    <!-- Kafka embedded server uses Zookeeper 3.5.7 API -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <version>3.4.7</version>
+      <version>3.5.7</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/external/kafka-0-10/pom.xml b/external/kafka-0-10/pom.xml
index 666d9416b245e..024fdb26d5bf4 100644
--- a/external/kafka-0-10/pom.xml
+++ b/external/kafka-0-10/pom.xml
@@ -84,11 +84,11 @@
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
-    <!-- Kafka embedded server uses Zookeeper 3.4.7 API -->
+    <!-- Kafka embedded server uses Zookeeper 3.5.7 API -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-      <version>3.4.7</version>
+      <version>3.5.7</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index cd85db6e03264..470edfd46164f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
     <!-- Version used for internal directory structure -->
     <hive.version.short>2.3</hive.version.short>
     <!-- note that this should be compatible with Kafka brokers version 0.10 and up -->
-    <kafka.version>2.4.1</kafka.version>
+    <kafka.version>2.5.0</kafka.version>
     <derby.version>10.12.1.1</derby.version>
     <parquet.version>1.10.1</parquet.version>
     <orc.version>1.5.9</orc.version>