diff --git a/share/yashchiki/styles/asic/create_recipe.sh b/share/yashchiki/styles/asic/create_recipe.sh
index d75958795adbb6b873c5829886bfd321522f211b..25821ae044d6ffeea9975f5e702f92bcb4e2f77a 100755
--- a/share/yashchiki/styles/asic/create_recipe.sh
+++ b/share/yashchiki/styles/asic/create_recipe.sh
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ From: ${DOCKER_BASE_IMAGE}
     # EPEL is needed for fuse-sshfs and jq
     yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
 
+    # certificates of the base image are outdated -> manually install ca-certificates
+    yum install -y ca-certificates
+
     yum -y install \
         apr-util \
         autoconf \