diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
index b565e47b99..5d8b43e5e4 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
 
 =dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.9.4 ~amd64 ~arm64
 
+# upstream stabilizes arm64 for dev-lang/cython
+# stabilize dev-python/cython for amd64 to keep the version same for both arch
+=dev-python/cython-0.29.33 ~amd64
+
 # Required for addressing CVE-2023-0361.
 =net-libs/gnutls-3.8.0 ~amd64 ~arm64