diff --git a/mariadb.spec b/mariadb.spec
index ddf57a3..3e423d8 100644
--- a/mariadb.spec
+++ b/mariadb.spec
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ fi
          -DGROONGA_NORMALIZER_MYSQL_PROJECT_NAME=%{name}-server/groonga-normalizer-mysql \
          -DENABLED_LOCAL_INFILE=ON \
          -DENABLE_DTRACE=ON \
-         -DSECURITY_HARDENED=ON \
+         -DSECURITY_HARDENED=OFF \
          -DWITH_WSREP=%{?with_galera:ON}%{!?with_galera:OFF} \
          -DWITH_INNODB_DISALLOW_WRITES=%{?with_galera:ON}%{!?with_galera:OFF} \
          -DWITH_EMBEDDED_SERVER=%{?with_embedded:ON}%{!?with_embedded:OFF} \
@@ -879,6 +879,10 @@ fi
          -DCONNECT_WITH_JDBC=OFF \
 %{?with_debug: -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DWITH_ASAN=OFF -DWITH_INNODB_EXTRA_DEBUG=ON -DWITH_VALGRIND=ON}
 
+# The -DSECURITY_HARDENED is used to force a set of compilation flags for hardening
+# The issue is that the MariaDB upstream level of hardening is lower than expected by Red Hat
+# We disable this option to the default compilation flags (which have higher level of hardening) will be used
+
 
 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE"
 # force PIC mode so that we can build libmysqld.so