diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/docker/cli-system-plugin-dir-from-env-25.patch b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/docker/cli-system-plugin-dir-from-env-25.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..616b501d2ff8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/docker/cli-system-plugin-dir-from-env-25.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff --git a/cli-plugins/manager/manager_unix.go b/cli-plugins/manager/manager_unix.go
+index 000c058df0..246c427cba 100644
+--- a/cli-plugins/manager/manager_unix.go
++++ b/cli-plugins/manager/manager_unix.go
+@@ -2,7 +2,13 @@
+ 
+ package manager
+ 
+-var defaultSystemPluginDirs = []string{
+-	"/usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins", "/usr/local/libexec/docker/cli-plugins",
+-	"/usr/lib/docker/cli-plugins", "/usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins",
++import (
++    "os"
++    "path/filepath"
++)
++
++var defaultSystemPluginDirs []string
++
++func init() {
++    defaultSystemPluginDirs = filepath.SplitList(os.Getenv("DOCKER_CLI_PLUGIN_DIRS"))
+ }
+ 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/docker/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/docker/default.nix
index 571b3116d8c0..91dda130ccce 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/docker/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/docker/default.nix
@@ -277,7 +277,12 @@ let
         };
 
         patches = [
-          ./cli-system-plugin-dir-from-env.patch
+          (
+            if lib.versionOlder version "26.0.0" then
+              ./cli-system-plugin-dir-from-env-25.patch
+            else
+              ./cli-system-plugin-dir-from-env.patch
+          )
         ];
 
         vendorHash = null;