diff --git a/src/coreutils/debian/patches/lower-nix-dep.diff b/src/coreutils/debian/patches/lower-nix-dep.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c16cbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/coreutils/debian/patches/lower-nix-dep.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+Index: coreutils/Cargo.toml
+===================================================================
+--- coreutils.orig/Cargo.toml
++++ coreutils/Cargo.toml
+@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ conv = "0.3"
+ filetime = "0.2"
+ glob = "0.3.0"
+ libc = "0.2"
+-nix = "0.20.0"
++nix = "0.19.0"
+ rand = "0.7"
+ regex = "1.0"
+ sha1 = { version="0.6", features=["std"] }
+Index: coreutils/src/uu/cat/Cargo.toml
+===================================================================
+--- coreutils.orig/src/uu/cat/Cargo.toml
++++ coreutils/src/uu/cat/Cargo.toml
+@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ uucore_procs = { version=">=0.0.5", pack
+ unix_socket = "0.5.0"
+ 
+ [target.'cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))'.dependencies]
+-nix = "0.20"
++nix = "0.19"
+ 
+ [[bin]]
+ name = "cat"
+Index: coreutils/src/uu/wc/Cargo.toml
+===================================================================
+--- coreutils.orig/src/uu/wc/Cargo.toml
++++ coreutils/src/uu/wc/Cargo.toml
+@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ uucore_procs = { version=">=0.0.5", pack
+ thiserror = "1.0"
+ 
+ [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
+-nix = "0.20"
++nix = "0.19"
+ libc = "0.2"
+ 
+ [[bin]]
diff --git a/src/coreutils/debian/patches/series b/src/coreutils/debian/patches/series
index 3787dc5..b6f0dbd 100644
--- a/src/coreutils/debian/patches/series
+++ b/src/coreutils/debian/patches/series
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@
 bump-cpp.diff
 bump-thread-local.diff
 lower-libc-dep.diff
+lower-nix-dep.diff