diff --git a/versions.yaml b/versions.yaml
index b7b064888..8adb9d34d 100644
--- a/versions.yaml
+++ b/versions.yaml
@@ -184,11 +184,12 @@ externals:
   cri-containerd:
     description: |
       Containerd Plugin for Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface.
-    url: "github.com/containerd/cri"
-    tarball_url: "https://storage.googleapis.com/cri-containerd-release"
-    # Next commit from 1.3 branch contains fix to be able to run
-    # tests using go 1.13
-    version: "v1.3.7"
+    url: "github.com/containerd/containerd"
+    tarball_url: "https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/download"
+    # containerd from v1.5.0 used the path unix socket
+    # instead of abstract socket, thus kata wouldn's support the containerd's
+    # version older than them.
+    version: "v1.5.2"
 
   critools:
     description: "CLI tool for Container Runtime Interface (CRI)"