diff --git a/template/deny.toml b/template/deny.toml
index ba73fa96..1d140638 100644
--- a/template/deny.toml
+++ b/template/deny.toml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ allow = [
     "LicenseRef-webpki",
     "MIT",
     "MPL-2.0",
+    "OpenSSL", # Needed for the ring and/or aws-lc-sys crate. See https://github.com/stackabletech/operator-templating/pull/464 for details
     "Unicode-3.0",
     "Unicode-DFS-2016",
     "Zlib",