admin.describeAcls failes with "Cluster authorization failed"

[anupam0303]

Describe the bug
I have created an admin client for Kafka. I am able to use this for listTopics, listGroups & describeGroups without any problem. But as soon as I try describeAcls, it ends up in below error:

{
"level": "ERROR",
"timestamp": "2025-02-07T08:27:32.998Z",
"logger": "kafkajs",
"message": "[Connection] Response DescribeAcls(key: 29, version: 1)",
"broker": "b-1.i--------------------:9096",
"clientId": "portal-app",
"error": "Cluster authorization failed",
"correlationId": 5,
"size": 260
}

To Reproduce
Here is the piece of code that fails:
const kafka = new Kafka({
clientId: "portal-app",
brokers,
ssl: true, // Enable SSL
sasl: {
mechanism: "scram-sha-512",
username,
password,
},
});

const admin = kafka.admin();
console.log("Connecting to Kafka broker...");
await admin.connect();

// get ACLS for a topic
const topic = "my.topic";
const acl = await admin.describeAcls({
  resourceType: AclResourceTypes.TOPIC,
  resourceName: topic,
  resourcePatternType: ResourcePatternTypes.LITERAL,
  operation: AclOperationTypes.ALL,
  permissionType: AclPermissionTypes.ALLOW,
});

1. failing test in a KafkaJS fork
2. repository with an example project reproducing the issue

Expected behavior
It should be able to describe the acls

Environment:

• AWS MSK
• KafkaJS version [2.2.4]
• Kafka version [2.7.2]
• NodeJS version [18]

Additional context
There is zookeeper used to define ACLs