diff --git a/images/pulp-minimal/stable/Containerfile.core b/images/pulp-minimal/stable/Containerfile.core
index 57ed4406..0cd40c21 100644
--- a/images/pulp-minimal/stable/Containerfile.core
+++ b/images/pulp-minimal/stable/Containerfile.core
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ARG FROM_TAG="latest"
 FROM pulp/base:${FROM_TAG}
 
-ARG PULPCORE_VERSION=""
+ARG PULPCORE_VERSION="~=3.22.0"
 ARG PULP_ANSIBLE_VERSION=""
 ARG PULP_CERTGUARD_VERSION=""
 ARG PULP_CONTAINER_VERSION=""
diff --git a/images/pulp/stable/Containerfile b/images/pulp/stable/Containerfile
index cbca28c5..276b92af 100644
--- a/images/pulp/stable/Containerfile
+++ b/images/pulp/stable/Containerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ARG FROM_TAG="latest"
 FROM pulp/pulp-ci-centos:${FROM_TAG}
 
-ARG PULPCORE_VERSION=""
+ARG PULPCORE_VERSION="~=3.22.0"
 ARG PULP_ANSIBLE_VERSION=""
 ARG PULP_CERTGUARD_VERSION=""
 ARG PULP_CONTAINER_VERSION=""