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 53d9cbefd9..4941e0d915 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
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@
 # Required for addressing CVE-2022-29154
 =net-misc/rsync-3.2.6 ~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
-
 =sys-fs/cryptsetup-2.4.1-r1 ~amd64 ~arm64
 
 =sys-libs/libseccomp-2.5.0 ~amd64 ~arm64