diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 37824c5ee41245e64f7d7a39d074204070135160..c067424c3db31ce05c9d056fd039fd340d641a27 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ pmd:
     - 'export VERSION="6.40.0"'
     - 'wget "https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/download/pmd_releases%2F$VERSION/pmd-bin-$VERSION.zip"'
     - 'jar -xf "pmd-bin-$VERSION.zip"'
+    - 'chmod u+x "pmd-bin-$VERSION/bin/run.sh"'
   script:
-    - '/bin/sh "pmd-bin-$VERSION/bin/run.sh" pmd -d src/main/java -f textcolor -R pmd_rules.xml 2>&1 | tee pmd.log'
+    - '"pmd-bin-$VERSION/bin/run.sh" pmd -d src/main/java -f textcolor -R pmd_rules.xml 2>&1 | tee pmd.log'
   needs: []
   artifacts:
     when: on_failure