diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index bfeeefc9b..bc9147bb1 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
 # Implementation derived from `.cirrus.yml` in Rust's libc bindings
 # at revision 7f4774e76bd5cb9ccb7140d71ef9be9c16009cdf.
 
-task:
-  name: stable x86_64-unknown-freebsd-14
-  freebsd_instance:
-    image_family: freebsd-14-3
-  setup_script:
-    - curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf --output rustup.sh
-    - sh rustup.sh --default-toolchain stable -y --profile=minimal
-    - . $HOME/.cargo/env
-    - rustup default stable
-  test_script:
-    - . $HOME/.cargo/env
-    - cargo test --workspace --features=all-apis
+# Temporarily disabled due to a cargo bug:
+# see: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix/issues/1597
+# task:
+#   name: stable x86_64-unknown-freebsd-14
+#   freebsd_instance:
+#     image_family: freebsd-14-3
+#   setup_script:
+#     - curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf --output rustup.sh
+#     - sh rustup.sh --default-toolchain stable -y --profile=minimal
+#     - . $HOME/.cargo/env
+#     - rustup default stable
+#   test_script:
+#     - . $HOME/.cargo/env
+#     - cargo test --workspace --features=all-apis
 
 task:
   name: stable x86_64-unknown-freebsd-15