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 70296fded5..a000297660 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
@@ -115,3 +115,7 @@ dev-util/checkbashisms
 
 # dev-libs/openssl-3.0.0 is still in testing phase at this point
 =dev-libs/openssl-3.0.0 ~amd64 ~arm64
+
+# To address security issues like CVE-2021-31879, we need to accept
+# keywords for wget 1.21.2.
+=net-misc/wget-1.21.2 ~amd64 ~arm64