diff --git a/pkg/sensors/exec/procevents/proc.go b/pkg/sensors/exec/procevents/proc.go
index 0901c94c5e1..3d41d298fc2 100644
--- a/pkg/sensors/exec/procevents/proc.go
+++ b/pkg/sensors/exec/procevents/proc.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ package procevents
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"encoding/hex"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -136,6 +137,17 @@ func procsFindDockerId(cgroups string) (string, int) {
 				return container, i
 			}
 		}
+		// In some environments, such as the GitHub Ubuntu CI runner, docker cgroups do not contain the docker keyword but do end with a hex ID in their last component. Fall back to a naive approach here to handle that case.
+		components := strings.Split(s, "/")
+		if len(components) > 0 {
+			id := components[len(components)-1]
+			_, err := hex.DecodeString(id)
+			if err == nil {
+				if len(id) >= 31 {
+					return id[:31], len(strings.Join(components[:len(components)-1], "")) + 1
+				}
+			}
+		}
 	}
 	return "", 0
 }
diff --git a/pkg/sensors/exec/procevents/proc_reader.go b/pkg/sensors/exec/procevents/proc_reader.go
index 7580507b315..7917338cc84 100644
--- a/pkg/sensors/exec/procevents/proc_reader.go
+++ b/pkg/sensors/exec/procevents/proc_reader.go
@@ -4,12 +4,10 @@
 package procevents
 
 import (
-	"cmp"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"regexp"
-	"slices"
 	"sort"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -661,10 +659,6 @@ func listRunningProcs(procPath string) ([]procs, error) {
 
 	logger.GetLogger().Infof("Read ProcFS %s appended %d/%d entries", option.Config.ProcFS, len(processes), len(procFS))
 
-	slices.SortFunc(processes, func(a, b procs) int {
-		return cmp.Compare(a.pid, b.pid)
-	})
-
 	return processes, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/sensors/exec/procevents/proc_test.go b/pkg/sensors/exec/procevents/proc_test.go
index 452282ab5a2..0da8fb17a70 100644
--- a/pkg/sensors/exec/procevents/proc_test.go
+++ b/pkg/sensors/exec/procevents/proc_test.go
@@ -165,6 +165,11 @@ func TestProcsFindContainerId(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, i, 80, "ContainerId offset wrong")
 	assert.Equal(t, d, "0ca2b3cd20e5f55a2bbe8d4aa3f811c", "ContainerId wrong")
 
+	p = "11:pids:/actions_job/ec5fd62ba68d0b75a3cbdb7f7f78b526440b7969e22b2b362fb6f429ded42fdc"
+	d, i = procsFindDockerId(p)
+	assert.Equal(t, i, 20, "ContainerId offset wrong")
+	assert.Equal(t, d, "ec5fd62ba68d0b75a3cbdb7f7f78b52", "ContainerId wrong")
+
 	p = ""
 	d, i = procsFindDockerId(p)
 	assert.Equal(t, d, "", "Expect output '' empty string")