diff --git a/recipes-security/network-config/network-config.bb b/recipes-security/network-config/network-config.bb
index bf302742f5c25f44da040a2d90cd1dde11b13188..a71e3446d01071b7c3b33c11f40f8210565b9964 100644
--- a/recipes-security/network-config/network-config.bb
+++ b/recipes-security/network-config/network-config.bb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_UNIT_DIR = "${libdir}/systemd/system"
 
 do_install() {
     install -d ${D}${bindir}
-    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/network-config.sh ${D}${bindir}/
+    install -m 700 ${WORKDIR}/network-config.sh ${D}${bindir}/
 
     if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
         install -d ${D}${SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_UNIT_DIR}