diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 392bb1acb244d947a65dd37b0ffc8677df522116..56db5659e637e09aeb0fd2e9c158595b1305a99b 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ img_cache:
   script:
     - export -p | grep SINGULARITY_CACHEDIR
     - cat nextflow.config | grep -oP "container = \K.*" | tr -d "'" | sort | uniq | xargs -P 10 -I {} singularity pull --dir ${dir} 'docker://'{} || true
+    - chmod 775 ${dir}*.sif
 
 collect:
   stage: versions