diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/te/temporal/darwin-sandbox-fix.patch b/pkgs/by-name/te/temporal/darwin-sandbox-fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b390d492467c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/te/temporal/darwin-sandbox-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- vendor/modernc.org/libc/honnef.co/go/netdb/netdb.go
++++ vendor/modernc.org/libc/honnef.co/go/netdb/netdb.go
+@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ func init() {
+ 	// Load protocols
+ 	data, err := ioutil.ReadFile("/etc/protocols")
+ 	if err != nil {
+-		if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
++		if !os.IsNotExist(err) && !os.IsPermission(err) {
+ 			panic(err)
+ 		}
+ 
+@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ func init() {
+ 	// Load services
+ 	data, err = ioutil.ReadFile("/etc/services")
+ 	if err != nil {
+-		if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
++		if !os.IsNotExist(err) && !os.IsPermission(err) {
+ 			panic(err)
+ 		}
+ 
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/te/temporal/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/te/temporal/package.nix
index db2982655dda..2641f2b1f849 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/te/temporal/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/te/temporal/package.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,14 @@ buildGoModule rec {
     hash = "sha256-WiiezZ/2FgRte4BStIGHQhb5bHtfldi3TaIRG0xFtW0=";
   };
 
-  vendorHash = "sha256-HW2j8swbaWwU1i3udqlT8VyFreML6ZH14zWxF8L5NTQ=";
+  vendorHash = "sha256-CdzcOE/J0gqUbq7BXPpLFyNPNbFTziR5j9GPdYPzv50=";
+
+  overrideModAttrs = old: {
+    # netdb.go allows /etc/protocols and /etc/services to not exist and happily proceeds, but it panic()s if they exist but return permission denied.
+    postBuild = ''
+      patch -p0 < ${./darwin-sandbox-fix.patch}
+    '';
+  };
 
   excludedPackages = [ "./build" ];