diff --git a/roles/slurm-common/tasks/main.yml b/roles/slurm-common/tasks/main.yml
index d2351af627d7d6b32aa7d720d236c3a5139d84d5..54e549b5db14dd1d9ffb6fa665782d9ff45978e6 100644
--- a/roles/slurm-common/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/slurm-common/tasks/main.yml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
   with_items:
     - gcc
     - wget
-    - libssl-dev
+    - libssl1.0-dev # downgrade needed for bionic see https://github.com/dun/munge/issues/54
     - libpam0g-dev
     - libbz2-dev
     - make