diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/indices/PutMappingRequestTests.java b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/indices/PutMappingRequestTests.java
index 40b38e40b2647..aff64533ece0f 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/indices/PutMappingRequestTests.java
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/indices/PutMappingRequestTests.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.client.indices;
 
+import org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase.AwaitsFix;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentParser;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.RandomCreateIndexGenerator;
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 
+@AwaitsFix(bugUrl = "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/37654")
 public class PutMappingRequestTests extends AbstractXContentTestCase<PutMappingRequest> {
 
     @Override