diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py
index add742bfad..7ee12f4524 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py
@@ -885,6 +885,7 @@ FETCH_EXPORT_VARS = ['HOME', 'PATH',
                      'AWS_SESSION_TOKEN',
                      'GIT_CACHE_PATH',
                      'REMOTE_CONTAINERS_IPC',
+                     'GITHUB_TOKEN',
                      'SSL_CERT_DIR']
 
 def get_fetcher_environment(d):