diff --git a/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/buildRedist/default.nix b/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/buildRedist/default.nix
index bdf8a75494a1..0e2fd8cb5c29 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/buildRedist/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/buildRedist/default.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   lib,
   manifests,
   markForCudatoolkitRootHook,
+  patchelf,
   removeStubsFromRunpathHook,
   srcOnly,
   stdenv,
@@ -277,6 +278,17 @@ extendMkDerivation {
 
       nativeBuildInputs = [
         ./buildRedistHook.bash
+        # patchelf 0.19.2 aborts in shiftFile when addDriverRunpath re-patches binaries (e.g. libcufile, cuda_nvcc).
+        # FIXME: drop once https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/pull/672 is in the default patchelf
+        (patchelf.overrideAttrs (
+          finalAttrs: _: {
+            version = "0.15.2";
+            src = fetchurl {
+              url = "https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/releases/download/${finalAttrs.version}/patchelf-${finalAttrs.version}.tar.bz2";
+              hash = "sha256-F3RfVkFZyOIo/EEtplogSLhGxLa0Igt3y/IkFuAvLXw=";
+            };
+          }
+        ))
         autoPatchelfHook
         # This hook will make sure libcuda can be found
         # in typically /lib/opengl-driver by adding that
diff --git a/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/default.nix b/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/default.nix
index e8ab8e91c28f..f69e4f37df68 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/default.nix
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ let
           autoAddDriverRunpath
           autoPatchelfHook
           fetchurl
+          patchelf
           srcOnly
           stdenv
           stdenvNoCC