diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
index 9a03b74c8b..7fa69a8ee4 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ USE_EXPAND="${USE_EXPAND} GO_VERSION"
 # Extra use flags for CoreOS SDK
 USE="${USE} cros_host expat -cracklib -introspection -cups -tcpd -berkdb"
 
+# Only net-analyzer/nmap uses lua and it's compatible only with lua5-3.
+LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-3"
+LUA_TARGETS="lua5-3"
+
 # Use Python 3 as the default version
 USE="${USE} -python_single_target_python2_7 python_single_target_python3_10"
 USE="${USE} -python_targets_python2_7 python_targets_python3_10"