diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
index 876e4eead9..887c1c1ea6 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
@@ -100,3 +100,6 @@ sys-apps/man-db -nls
 
 # Disable zstd to avoid adding it to prod images until something needs it
 sys-fs/btrfs-progs -zstd
+
+# enable regular expression processing in jq
+app-misc/jq oniguruma