diff --git a/cmd/tetragon/main.go b/cmd/tetragon/main.go
index b348239c867..cbb694c68e2 100644
--- a/cmd/tetragon/main.go
+++ b/cmd/tetragon/main.go
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/cilium/tetragon/pkg/sensors/base"
 	"github.com/cilium/tetragon/pkg/sensors/program"
 	"github.com/cilium/tetragon/pkg/server"
+	"github.com/cilium/tetragon/pkg/unixlisten"
 	"github.com/cilium/tetragon/pkg/version"
 	"github.com/cilium/tetragon/pkg/watcher"
 	"github.com/cilium/tetragon/pkg/watcher/crd"
@@ -367,7 +368,13 @@ func Serve(ctx context.Context, listenAddr string, server *server.Server) error
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to parse listen address: %w", err)
 	}
 	go func(proto, addr string) {
-		listener, err := net.Listen(proto, addr)
+		var listener net.Listener
+		var err error
+		if proto == "unix" {
+			listener, err = unixlisten.ListenWithRename(addr, 0660)
+		} else {
+			listener, err = net.Listen(proto, addr)
+		}
 		if err != nil {
 			log.WithError(err).WithField("protocol", proto).WithField("address", addr).Fatal("Failed to start gRPC server")
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/unixlisten/unixlisten.go b/pkg/unixlisten/unixlisten.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c7b10bfaa34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/unixlisten/unixlisten.go
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+// Copyright Authors of Tetragon
+package unixlisten
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+)
+
+// ListenWithRename creates a "unix" listener for the given path and the given mode
+//
+// Go's net.Listen() performs three system calls at once:
+//  - socket, where the file descriptor is created
+//  - bind, where the unix socket file is created
+//  - listen, where the socket can now accept connections
+//
+// Hence, doing a chmod(2) after Listen is racy because a client can connect
+// between the listen(2) and the chmod(2) calls. One solution would be to use
+// umask(2), but this is tricky to do in a multi-threaded program because it
+// affects other files being created from different threads. Also, other
+// threads may change the umask.
+//
+// This function, instead, creates the socket file in a private directory,
+// performs the appropriate chmod and only then  moves the file to its original
+// location. Not sure about other systems, but at least on Linux renaming a
+// unix socket file after the listen seems to work without issues.
+func ListenWithRename(path string, mode os.FileMode) (net.Listener, error) {
+	os.Remove(path)
+
+	baseName := filepath.Base(path)
+	dirName := filepath.Dir(path)
+
+	// Create a temporary directory: MkdirTemp creates the directory with 0700
+	tmpDir, err := os.MkdirTemp(dirName, fmt.Sprintf("%s-dir-*", baseName))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer os.RemoveAll(tmpDir)
+
+	tmpPath := filepath.Join(tmpDir, baseName)
+	l, err := net.Listen("unix", tmpPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	if err := os.Chmod(tmpPath, mode); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	err = os.Rename(tmpPath, path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return l, nil
+}