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 9f9d6446fc..a189c2c3ba 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
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ dev-util/checkbashisms
 
 =net-misc/openssh-8.7_p1-r1 ~amd64 ~arm64
 
+=net-misc/rsync-3.2.3-r5 ~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