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 0ed5114fde..21a926076e 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
@@ -112,3 +112,6 @@ dev-util/checkbashisms
 # keywords for vim 8.2.3428.
 =app-editors/vim-8.2.3428 ~amd64 ~arm64
 =app-editors/vim-core-8.2.3428 ~amd64 ~arm64
+
+# dev-libs/openssl-3.0.0 is still in testing phase at this point
+=dev-libs/openssl-3.0.0 ~amd64 ~arm64
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 7ab0928e31..dad5cf17a4 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
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Overwrite outdated portage-stable mask
-=dev-libs/openssl-1.1.1l
+=dev-libs/openssl-3.0.0
 
 # Overwrite portage-stable mask - this package was removed in
 # gentoo. We still need it, since sys-libs/libsemanage still requires