diff --git a/ci/submodule-sync.sh b/ci/submodule-sync.sh
index a889d86eb0..af5c2183cd 100755
--- a/ci/submodule-sync.sh
+++ b/ci/submodule-sync.sh
@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ rapids_cmake_sha=$(git -C ${LIBCUDF_BUILD_PATH}/_deps/rapids-cmake-src/ rev-pars
 echo "Update rapids-cmake pinned SHA1 to ${rapids_cmake_sha}"
 echo "${rapids_cmake_sha}" > thirdparty/cudf-pins/rapids-cmake.sha
 
+# Bash the wrong nvcomp version to the correct version until
+# nvcomp version mismatch is fixed. https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/issues/16772.
+echo "Workaround nvcomp 4.0.1 / 4.0.1.0 versioning issues"
+sed -i 's/4\.0\.1\.0/4.0.1/' thirdparty/cudf-pins/versions.json
+
 # Do the git add after the build so that we get
 # the updated versions.json generated by the build
 echo "Update cudf submodule to ${cudf_sha} with updated pinned versions"
diff --git a/thirdparty/cudf-pins/versions.json b/thirdparty/cudf-pins/versions.json
index c2aebe494d..41e890548a 100644
--- a/thirdparty/cudf-pins/versions.json
+++ b/thirdparty/cudf-pins/versions.json
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
         "11" : "11.x",
         "12" : "12.x"
       },
-      "version" : "4.0.1.0"
+      "version" : "4.0.1"
     },
     "nvtx3" : 
     {