diff --git a/dask_cuda/tests/test_explicit_comms.py b/dask_cuda/tests/test_explicit_comms.py
index bd6770225..7e147ffbb 100644
--- a/dask_cuda/tests/test_explicit_comms.py
+++ b/dask_cuda/tests/test_explicit_comms.py
@@ -259,6 +259,11 @@ def _test_dataframe_shuffle_merge(backend, protocol, n_workers):
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("protocol", ["tcp", "ucx"])
 def test_dataframe_shuffle_merge(backend, protocol, nworkers):
     if backend == "cudf":
+        if protocol == "ucx":
+            pytest.skip(
+                "Temporarily disable due to segfaults in libaws-cpp-sdk-core.so"
+            )
+
         pytest.importorskip("cudf")
     p = mp.Process(
         target=_test_dataframe_shuffle_merge, args=(backend, protocol, nworkers)