diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/cbor/cbor.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/cbor/cbor.go
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index 00000000000..c8176dca7b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/cbor/cbor.go
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2024 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package cbor
+
+import (
+	_ "github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2"
+)
diff --git a/test/fuzz/cbor/cbor.go b/test/fuzz/cbor/cbor.go
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index 00000000000..0e1eace1ab4
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+++ b/test/fuzz/cbor/cbor.go
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+/*
+Copyright 2024 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package cbor
+
+import (
+	// Adds this package and its dependencies to the dependency chain of k8s.io/kubernetes
+	// without affecting the size of kube binaries. Once fuzz targets are added here, this will
+	// become a real import.
+	_ "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/cbor"
+)