diff --git a/contrib/cppkafka b/contrib/cppkafka
index 5a119f689f8..9c5ea0e3324 160000
--- a/contrib/cppkafka
+++ b/contrib/cppkafka
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 5a119f689f8a4d90d10a9635e7ee2bee5c127de1
+Subproject commit 9c5ea0e332486961e612deacc6e3f0c1874c688d
diff --git a/src/Storages/Kafka/KafkaConsumer.cpp b/src/Storages/Kafka/KafkaConsumer.cpp
index 47167e19a38..7075dcb71ca 100644
--- a/src/Storages/Kafka/KafkaConsumer.cpp
+++ b/src/Storages/Kafka/KafkaConsumer.cpp
@@ -599,24 +599,14 @@ void KafkaConsumer::setExceptionInfo(const std::string & text, bool with_stacktr
     exceptions_buffer.push_back({enriched_text, static_cast<UInt64>(Poco::Timestamp().epochTime())});
 }
 
-/*
- * Needed until
- * https://github.com/mfontanini/cppkafka/pull/309
- * is merged,
- * because consumer->get_member_id() contains a leak
- */
 std::string KafkaConsumer::getMemberId() const
 {
     if (!consumer)
         return "";
 
-    char * memberid_ptr = rd_kafka_memberid(consumer->get_handle());
-    std::string memberid_string = memberid_ptr;
-    rd_kafka_mem_free(nullptr, memberid_ptr);
-    return memberid_string;
+    return consumer->get_member_id();
 }
 
-
 KafkaConsumer::Stat KafkaConsumer::getStat() const
 {
     KafkaConsumer::Stat::Assignments assignments;