diff --git a/app-admin/kube-bench/kube-bench-0.6.8.ebuild b/app-admin/kube-bench/kube-bench-0.6.8.ebuild
index 4d7ff54265c5f..0e29d40ffca44 100644
--- a/app-admin/kube-bench/kube-bench-0.6.8.ebuild
+++ b/app-admin/kube-bench/kube-bench-0.6.8.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ LICENSE="Apache-2.0 MIT MPL-2.0 BSD BSD-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	sed -i -e 's/-short -race/-short/' makefile || die
+}
+
 src_compile() {
 	emake KUBEBENCH_VERSION=v${PV} build
 }