diff --git a/Cross.toml b/Cross.toml
index 87fccd9cf..3e2d6d922 100644
--- a/Cross.toml
+++ b/Cross.toml
@@ -3,3 +3,7 @@ pre-build = [
     "dpkg --add-architecture $CROSS_DEB_ARCH",
     "apt-get update && apt-get install --assume-yes libssl-dev:$CROSS_DEB_ARCH libssl-dev"
 ]
+# work around:
+# * https://github.com/cross-rs/cross/issues/1512
+# * https://github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs/issues/1057
+image = "ghcr.io/cross-rs/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu:edge"