diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/eclass/coreos-go-depend.eclass b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/eclass/coreos-go-depend.eclass
index e7f016acd4..bec7ddc1e6 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/eclass/coreos-go-depend.eclass
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/eclass/coreos-go-depend.eclass
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # @CODE
 # COREOS_GO_VERSION=go1.20
 # @CODE
-export COREOS_GO_VERSION="${COREOS_GO_VERSION:-go1.20}"
+export COREOS_GO_VERSION="${COREOS_GO_VERSION:-go1.21}"
 
 case "${EAPI:-0}" in
 	5|6) DEPEND="dev-lang/go:${COREOS_GO_VERSION#go}=" ;;