diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 0be8f987867..92c50bcc629 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -81,3 +81,6 @@ require (
 
 // Override since git.apache.org is down.  The docs say to fetch from github.
 replace git.apache.org/thrift.git => github.com/apache/thrift v0.0.0-20180902110319-2566ecd5d999
+
+// Override reference that causes an error from Go proxy - see https://github.com/golang/go/issues/33558
+replace k8s.io/client-go => k8s.io/client-go v0.0.0-20190620085101-78d2af792bab
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 68270993f61..309e011edbc 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -806,8 +806,8 @@ k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20190813020757-36bff7324fb7/go.mod h1:3Iy+myeAORNCLgjd/Xu9ebwN
 k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20190612205821-1799e75a0719/go.mod h1:I4A+glKBHiTgiEjQiCCQfCAIcIMFGt291SmsvcrFzJA=
 k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20190809020650-423f5d784010 h1:pyoq062NftC1y/OcnbSvgolyZDJ8y4fmUPWMkdA6gfU=
 k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20190809020650-423f5d784010/go.mod h1:Waf/xTS2FGRrgXCkO5FP3XxTOWh0qLf2QhL1qFZZ/R8=
-k8s.io/client-go v12.0.0+incompatible h1:YlJxncpeVUC98/WMZKC3JZGk/OXQWCZjAB4Xr3B17RY=
-k8s.io/client-go v12.0.0+incompatible/go.mod h1:E95RaSlHr79aHaX0aGSwcPNfygDiPKOVXdmivCIZT0k=
+k8s.io/client-go v0.0.0-20190620085101-78d2af792bab h1:E8Fecph0qbNsAbijJJQryKu4Oi9QTp5cVpjTE+nqg6g=
+k8s.io/client-go v0.0.0-20190620085101-78d2af792bab/go.mod h1:E95RaSlHr79aHaX0aGSwcPNfygDiPKOVXdmivCIZT0k=
 k8s.io/gengo v0.0.0-20190128074634-0689ccc1d7d6/go.mod h1:ezvh/TsK7cY6rbqRK0oQQ8IAqLxYwwyPxAX1Pzy0ii0=
 k8s.io/klog v0.0.0-20181102134211-b9b56d5dfc92/go.mod h1:Gq+BEi5rUBO/HRz0bTSXDUcqjScdoY3a9IHpCEIOOfk=
 k8s.io/klog v0.3.0 h1:0VPpR+sizsiivjIfIAQH/rl8tan6jvWkS7lU+0di3lE=
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 6c787bd44da..c0fcec6a1df 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1beta1
 k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/framer
 k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/yaml
 k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured
-# k8s.io/client-go v12.0.0+incompatible
+# k8s.io/client-go v12.0.0+incompatible => k8s.io/client-go v0.0.0-20190620085101-78d2af792bab
 k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes
 k8s.io/client-go/rest
 k8s.io/client-go/tools/cache