diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f97a5a54b3..23be01824a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ ARG CACHEBUST="cachebust"
 COPY charts/ /charts/
 RUN echo ${CACHEBUST}>/dev/null
 RUN CHART_VERSION="v3.13.3"     CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-canal.yaml             CHART_BOOTSTRAP=true    /charts/build-chart.sh
-RUN CHART_VERSION="1.13.800"    CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-coredns.yaml           CHART_BOOTSTRAP=true    /charts/build-chart.sh
+RUN CHART_VERSION="1.10.101"    CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-coredns.yaml           CHART_BOOTSTRAP=true    /charts/build-chart.sh
 RUN CHART_VERSION="1.36.300"    CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-ingress-nginx.yaml     CHART_BOOTSTRAP=false   /charts/build-chart.sh
 RUN CHART_VERSION="v1.19.5"    CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-kube-proxy.yaml        CHART_BOOTSTRAP=true    /charts/build-chart.sh
 RUN CHART_VERSION="2.11.100"    CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-metrics-server.yaml    CHART_BOOTSTRAP=false   /charts/build-chart.sh
diff --git a/scripts/build-images b/scripts/build-images
index 27c8187499..b5ae5b851f 100755
--- a/scripts/build-images
+++ b/scripts/build-images
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ source ./scripts/version.sh
 
 xargs -n1 -t docker image pull --quiet << EOF > build/images.txt
     docker.io/rancher/hardened-calico:v3.13.3
-    docker.io/rancher/hardened-coredns:v1.7.1
+    docker.io/rancher/hardened-coredns:v1.6.9
     docker.io/rancher/hardened-etcd:v3.4.13-k3s1
     docker.io/rancher/hardened-flannel:v0.13.0-rancher1
     docker.io/rancher/hardened-k8s-metrics-server:v0.3.6