diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/onnxruntime/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/onnxruntime/default.nix
index 4d2ed826d456..9685d85a72a3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/onnxruntime/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/onnxruntime/default.nix
@@ -80,5 +80,16 @@ buildPythonPackage {
     packaging
   ];
 
+  # aarch64-linux fails cpuinfo test, because /sys/devices/system/cpu/ does not exist in the sandbox:
+  # terminate called after throwing an instance of 'onnxruntime::OnnxRuntimeException'
+  #
+  # While this problem has existed for a while, it started occuring at import time since the update
+  # of onnxruntime to 1.23.1 (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/450587)
+  pythonImportsCheck =
+    lib.optionals (!(stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux && stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64))
+      [
+        "onnxruntime"
+      ];
+
   meta = onnxruntime.meta;
 }