diff --git a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/utils/index-file/inline-fonts.ts b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/utils/index-file/inline-fonts.ts
index 4746d589d2..55ed024750 100644
--- a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/utils/index-file/inline-fonts.ts
+++ b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/utils/index-file/inline-fonts.ts
@@ -210,7 +210,6 @@ export class InlineFontsProcessor {
           url,
           {
             agent,
-            rejectUnauthorized: false,
             headers: {
               'user-agent':
                 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36',