diff --git a/profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/base b/profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/base
index cfd9cbd5d..62f245dc5 100644
--- a/profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/base
+++ b/profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/base
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
   @{PROC}/meminfo                r,
   @{PROC}/stat                   r,
   @{PROC}/cpuinfo                r,
+  /sys/devices/system/cpu/online r,
 
   # glibc's *printf protections read the maps file
   @{PROC}/*/maps                 r,