diff --git a/x-pack/qa/kerberos-tests/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authc/kerberos/KerberosAuthenticationIT.java b/x-pack/qa/kerberos-tests/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authc/kerberos/KerberosAuthenticationIT.java
index a2aa559295a8c..0281f38933b03 100644
--- a/x-pack/qa/kerberos-tests/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authc/kerberos/KerberosAuthenticationIT.java
+++ b/x-pack/qa/kerberos-tests/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authc/kerberos/KerberosAuthenticationIT.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 
 import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
 import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase.AwaitsFix;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.Request;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.Response;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.RestClient;
@@ -48,7 +47,6 @@
  * Demonstrates login by keytab and login by password for given user principal
  * name using rest client.
  */
-@AwaitsFix(bugUrl = "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/40678")
 public class KerberosAuthenticationIT extends ESRestTestCase {
     private static final String ENABLE_KERBEROS_DEBUG_LOGS_KEY = "test.krb.debug";
     private static final String TEST_USER_WITH_KEYTAB_KEY = "test.userkt";