diff --git a/WORKSPACE.bazel b/WORKSPACE.bazel
index 30c4f600c5..6661562bee 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE.bazel
+++ b/WORKSPACE.bazel
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ versioned_http_archive(
     build_file = "//bazel/third_party/openssl:openssl.BUILD",
     sha256 = "cf3098950cb4d853ad95c0841f1f9c6d3dc102dccfcacd521d93925208b76ac8",
     strip_prefix = "openssl-{version}",
-    url = "https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-{version}.tar.gz",
+    url = "https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/download/OpenSSL_1_1_1w/openssl-{version}.tar.gz",
     version = "1.1.1w",
 )