diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5393f8e42201e..a6b7dd05ebad4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 - Fix bug of warm index: FullFileCachedIndexInput was closed error ([#20055](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/20055))
 - Fix flaky test ClusterMaxMergesAtOnceIT.testClusterLevelDefaultUpdatesMergePolicy ([#18056](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/18056))
 - Fix bug in Assertion framework(Yaml Rest test): numeric comparison fails when comparing Integer vs Long (or Float vs Double) ([#19376](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/19376))
+- Fix working directory for OpenSearchNode to avoid executing in immutable Gradle cache directory ([#20229](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/20229))
 - Fix Netty deprecation warnings in transport-netty4 module ([#20233](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/20233))
 
 ### Dependencies
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/testclusters/OpenSearchNode.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/testclusters/OpenSearchNode.java
index 47781f4ed5de7..451fefd7aba98 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/testclusters/OpenSearchNode.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/opensearch/gradle/testclusters/OpenSearchNode.java
@@ -725,12 +725,17 @@ private void runOpenSearchBinScriptWithInput(String input, String tool, CharSequ
         try (InputStream byteArrayInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(input.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))) {
             LoggedExec.exec(project, spec -> {
                 spec.setEnvironment(getOpenSearchEnvironment());
-                spec.workingDir(getDistroDir());
-                spec.executable(OS.conditionalString().onUnix(() -> "./bin/" + tool).onWindows(() -> "cmd").supply());
+                spec.workingDir(workingDir.toFile());
+                spec.executable(
+                    OS.conditionalString()
+                        .onUnix(() -> getDistroDir().resolve("bin").resolve(tool).toString())
+                        .onWindows(() -> "cmd")
+                        .supply()
+                );
                 spec.args(OS.<List<CharSequence>>conditional().onWindows(() -> {
                     ArrayList<CharSequence> result = new ArrayList<>();
                     result.add("/c");
-                    result.add("bin\\" + tool + ".bat");
+                    result.add(getDistroDir().resolve("bin").resolve(tool + ".bat").toString());
                     result.addAll(Arrays.asList(args));
                     return result;
                 }).onUnix(() -> Arrays.asList(args)).supply());