diff --git a/main/mkinitfs/0001-mkinitfs-harden-permissions-of-initramfs.patch b/main/mkinitfs/0001-mkinitfs-harden-permissions-of-initramfs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9c67315bc378488a8e7f46e3cdc3a1ee1be35ef0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main/mkinitfs/0001-mkinitfs-harden-permissions-of-initramfs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 23fe38c883439310ead972e734cba985b7baaf63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
+Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:48:14 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] mkinitfs: harden permissions of initramfs
+
+ref https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues/11044
+---
+ mkinitfs.in | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/mkinitfs.in b/mkinitfs.in
+index 8cd3de3..9bd95f9 100755
+--- a/mkinitfs.in
++++ b/mkinitfs.in
+@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ initfs_cpio() {
+ 		return
+ 	fi
+ 	rm -f $outfile
+-	umask 0022
++	umask 0077
+ 	(cd "$tmpdir" && find . | sort | cpio --quiet -o -H newc | $comp) > $outfile
+ }
+ 
+-- 
+2.24.1
+
diff --git a/main/mkinitfs/APKBUILD b/main/mkinitfs/APKBUILD
index d0b4ea2795aa0c30d787fcb15d7dd0d5290a3321..5b3e32b14666889065498bfd71f746b394126a76 100644
--- a/main/mkinitfs/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/mkinitfs/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 pkgname=mkinitfs
 pkgver=3.4.3
 _ver=${pkgver%_git*}
-pkgrel=3
+pkgrel=4
 pkgdesc="Tool to generate initramfs images for Alpine"
 url="https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/mkinitfs"
 arch="all"
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ source="https://dev.alpinelinux.org/archive/$pkgname/$pkgname-$_ver.tar.xz
 	0001-nlplug-findfs.c-Explicitly-include-sys-sysmacros.h-d.patch
 	0001-features-add-af_packet-kernel-module-for-dhcp.patch
 	0001-Helping-parsing-code-survive-variable-settings-with-.patch
+	0001-mkinitfs-harden-permissions-of-initramfs.patch
 	"
 
 build() {
@@ -34,4 +35,5 @@ package() {
 sha512sums="d335a6f58ca38a3cc6dcc560baaabd3ea9522ce25de008eb637f0761db7f783c3b03767ba046c3d34550d1d0741bcc54ad09903b41e79fe408264eadbbc0a457  mkinitfs-3.4.3.tar.xz
 6b7c16035181ab96a1d0dad9f31df8d74e6d39db775ce540b2b2efaaa4d918a18f331829f4113bff7a38805f648b7d83b7ec15adaaf78b17c9465dc0a19e8b32  0001-nlplug-findfs.c-Explicitly-include-sys-sysmacros.h-d.patch
 2b29aceee789a79c5395e9a4e896aa0561f812420aa98ab9febdca8e1ea34691d2b819a8f0c09e56d198fda587e569ce026bc6aacdb700ea00a91fc08dcd3a05  0001-features-add-af_packet-kernel-module-for-dhcp.patch
-2a443d1c45533c39339c5f30c0a0318205f59f2fadf4ce4b3992439cecb9f6f3c2c5d9dbaa1be89b2d09d4ec8876280963f7ea93b68f3a0f26cec99e1028d847  0001-Helping-parsing-code-survive-variable-settings-with-.patch"
+2a443d1c45533c39339c5f30c0a0318205f59f2fadf4ce4b3992439cecb9f6f3c2c5d9dbaa1be89b2d09d4ec8876280963f7ea93b68f3a0f26cec99e1028d847  0001-Helping-parsing-code-survive-variable-settings-with-.patch
+848c4e4a30eb878a3733289e00b55665c72b1f810a98e2f04df7a82dfb442ec5be9413719b3f1a1116458571730ffa30e14dc746cfa9dc482c13b49ebac84d2f  0001-mkinitfs-harden-permissions-of-initramfs.patch"