diff --git a/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.mk b/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.mk
index 356ea91828..f59832645f 100644
--- a/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.mk
+++ b/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.mk
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBOPENSSL),y)
 WPA_SUPPLICANT_DEPENDENCIES += host-pkgconf libopenssl
 WPA_SUPPLICANT_LIBS += `$(PKG_CONFIG_HOST_BINARY) --libs openssl`
 WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONFIG_EDITS += 's/\#\(CONFIG_TLS=openssl\)/\1/'
+# Issue only affects the "internal" TLS implementation
+WPA_SUPPLICANT_IGNORE_CVES += CVE-2021-30004
 else
 WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONFIG_DISABLE += CONFIG_EAP_PWD CONFIG_EAP_TEAP
 WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONFIG_EDITS += 's/\#\(CONFIG_TLS=\).*/\1internal/'