diff --git a/test/e2e/config/provider.yaml b/test/e2e/config/provider.yaml
index 646340744..d140baf93 100644
--- a/test/e2e/config/provider.yaml
+++ b/test/e2e/config/provider.yaml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ providers:
 variables:
   # default variables for the e2e test; those values could be overridden via env variables, thus
   # allowing the same e2e config file to be re-used in different prow jobs e.g. each one with a K8s version permutation
-  KUBERNETES_VERSION: "v1.23.5"
+  KUBERNETES_VERSION: "v1.22.3"
   ETCD_VERSION_UPGRADE_TO: "3.4.9-0"
   COREDNS_VERSION_UPGRADE_TO: "1.7.0"
   KUBERNETES_VERSION_UPGRADE_TO: "v1.22.0"
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ variables:
   NODE_DRAIN_TIMEOUT: "60s"
   # NOTE: INIT_WITH_BINARY is used only by the clusterctl upgrade test to initialize the management cluster to be upgraded
   INIT_WITH_BINARY: "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/releases/download/v1.0.4/clusterctl-{OS}-{ARCH}"
-  BUNDLE_LOOKUP_TAG: "v1.23.5"
+  BUNDLE_LOOKUP_TAG: "v1.22.3"
   CONTROL_PLANE_ENDPOINT_IP: ""
 
 intervals: