diff --git a/ci/submodule-sync.sh b/ci/submodule-sync.sh
index 7f3e46886..8d4089a6c 100755
--- a/ci/submodule-sync.sh
+++ b/ci/submodule-sync.sh
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ rapids_cmake_sha=$(git -C ${LIBCUDF_BUILD_PATH}/_deps/rapids-cmake-src/ rev-pars
 echo "Update rapids-cmake pinned SHA1 to ${rapids_cmake_sha}"
 echo "${rapids_cmake_sha}" > thirdparty/cudf-pins/rapids-cmake.sha
 
+echo "Workaround for https://github.com/NVIDIA/spark-rapids-jni/issues/2582"
+cudf_patch_path="cudf/cpp/cmake/thirdparty/patches"
+sed -i "s|\${current_json_dir}|\${current_json_dir}/../${cudf_patch_path}|g" thirdparty/cudf-pins/versions.json
+
 # Do the git add after the build so that we get
 # the updated versions.json generated by the build
 echo "Update cudf submodule to ${cudf_sha} with updated pinned versions"