diff --git a/mobile/WORKSPACE b/mobile/WORKSPACE
index 6bd698572471..6c780b4aa7c9 100644
--- a/mobile/WORKSPACE
+++ b/mobile/WORKSPACE
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ http_archive(
     urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_foreign_cc/archive/2b40a0098d4016f620c2ee4c10da0f46f5c90d57.tar.gz"],
 )
 
+# Here instead of in upstream envoy to work around https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/issues/326
+http_archive(
+    name = "com_google_absl",
+    sha256 = "e35082e88b9da04f4d68094c05ba112502a5063712f3021adfa465306d238c76",
+    strip_prefix = "abseil-cpp-cc8dcd307b76a575d2e3e0958a4fe4c7193c2f68",
+    urls = ["https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/archive/cc8dcd307b76a575d2e3e0958a4fe4c7193c2f68.tar.gz"],
+)
+
 load("@rules_foreign_cc//:workspace_definitions.bzl", "rules_foreign_cc_dependencies")
 
 local_repository(