diff --git a/base/comps/component-check-disablement.toml b/base/comps/component-check-disablement.toml
index 8e2d4608866..97e1d9a4d32 100644
--- a/base/comps/component-check-disablement.toml
+++ b/base/comps/component-check-disablement.toml
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ components = [
     "satyr",
     "scancode-toolkit",
     "scipy",
+    "socat",
     "srt",
     "sssd",
     "superlu_dist",
diff --git a/base/comps/components.toml b/base/comps/components.toml
index ac2c4ba2c5c..a3ed12bdde2 100644
--- a/base/comps/components.toml
+++ b/base/comps/components.toml
@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ includes = ["**/*.comp.toml", "components-full.toml", "component-check-disableme
 [components.setup]
 [components.shadow-utils]
 [components.slang]
+[components.socat]
 [components.sqlite]
 [components.sssd]
 [components.strace]
diff --git a/base/comps/socat/socat.comp.toml b/base/comps/socat/socat.comp.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 536301bb4dd..00000000000
--- a/base/comps/socat/socat.comp.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-[components.socat]
-
-[[components.socat.overlays]]
-description = "Export SHELL env var — socat SHELL address type requires it but mock chroot does not set it"
-type = "spec-prepend-lines"
-section = "%check"
-lines = ["export SHELL=/bin/bash"]
-
-[[components.socat.overlays]]
-description = "Exclude VSOCK_ECHO test (410) — /dev/vsock unavailable in mock chroot"
-type = "spec-search-replace"
-section = "%check"
-regex = '-a \\\\\$N -ne 528'
-replacement = '-a \\$N -ne 410 -a \\$N -ne 528'