diff --git a/src/acceptance/assets/app/go_app/deploy.sh b/src/acceptance/assets/app/go_app/deploy.sh
index 75607ad8c4..02580b81b8 100755
--- a/src/acceptance/assets/app/go_app/deploy.sh
+++ b/src/acceptance/assets/app/go_app/deploy.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 
 # read content of config right at the beginning to avoid errors when switching directories
diff --git a/src/acceptance/bin/test_default b/src/acceptance/bin/test_default
index dff0be0b59..93a9cd9f10 100755
--- a/src/acceptance/bin/test_default
+++ b/src/acceptance/bin/test_default
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 # Tests that are skipped by default and why:
 # mtls - this requires changes to gorouter/haproxy to allow mtls operations
diff --git a/src/acceptance/cleanup.sh b/src/acceptance/cleanup.sh
index c744e6f928..fe2390c1fe 100755
--- a/src/acceptance/cleanup.sh
+++ b/src/acceptance/cleanup.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 set -euo pipefail