diff --git a/eng/Versions.props b/eng/Versions.props
index 019073ac68db..33cb2376abe4 100644
--- a/eng/Versions.props
+++ b/eng/Versions.props
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
     <MicrosoftNETCoreAppRefPackageVersion>6.0.33</MicrosoftNETCoreAppRefPackageVersion>
     <MicrosoftNETCoreDotNetHostResolverPackageVersion>6.0.33</MicrosoftNETCoreDotNetHostResolverPackageVersion>
     <NETStandardLibraryRefPackageVersion>2.1.0</NETStandardLibraryRefPackageVersion>
+    <MicrosoftIORedistPackageVersion>6.0.1</MicrosoftIORedistPackageVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup>
     <!-- Dependencies from https://github.com/dotnet/windowsdesktop -->
diff --git a/src/core-sdk-tasks/core-sdk-tasks.csproj b/src/core-sdk-tasks/core-sdk-tasks.csproj
index 5fc33672afb5..12e2266cc477 100644
--- a/src/core-sdk-tasks/core-sdk-tasks.csproj
+++ b/src/core-sdk-tasks/core-sdk-tasks.csproj
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
     <PackageReference Include="System.Reflection.Metadata" Version="6.0.1" />
     <PackageReference Include="WindowsAzure.Storage" Version="9.3.3" Condition="'$(DotNetBuildFromSource)' != 'true'" />
     <PackageReference Include="System.Net.Http" Version="4.3.4" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.IO.Redist" Version="$(MicrosoftIORedistPackageVersion)" Condition="'$(DotNetBuildFromSource)' != 'true'" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFrameworkIdentifier)' == '.NETFramework'">