diff --git a/vmm/src/seccomp_filters.rs b/vmm/src/seccomp_filters.rs
index 2b0016fa5..c78c97f4e 100644
--- a/vmm/src/seccomp_filters.rs
+++ b/vmm/src/seccomp_filters.rs
@@ -810,6 +810,7 @@ fn vcpu_thread_rules(
         (libc::SYS_rt_sigreturn, vec![]),
         (libc::SYS_sched_yield, vec![]),
         (libc::SYS_sendmsg, vec![]),
+        (libc::SYS_sendto, vec![]),
         (libc::SYS_shutdown, vec![]),
         (libc::SYS_sigaltstack, vec![]),
         (libc::SYS_tgkill, vec![]),