diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.unmask b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.unmask
index d6070f7761..7e3ddb48d4 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.unmask
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.unmask
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-# Overwrite portage-stable mask. The regressions that this version of
-# ncurses caused are in Gentoo packages that we don't have in
-# Flatcar. And we need it for a security fix.
-=sys-libs/ncurses-6.4_p20230527
-
 # Overwrite portage-stable mask. We are delaying the transition to
 # libxcrypt, because we need to figure out how to solve the dep loop
 # that results from the migration (python -> virtual/libcrypt ->