diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/math/mxnet/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/math/mxnet/default.nix
index 45b655f9f4a2..8e5e1ebd7e80 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/math/mxnet/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/math/mxnet/default.nix
@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     rm "$out"/lib/*.a
   '';
 
+  # used to mark cudaSupport in python310Packages.mxnet as broken;
+  # other attributes exposed for consistency
+  passthru = {
+    inherit cudaSupport cudnnSupport cudatoolkit cudnn;
+  };
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Lightweight, Portable, Flexible Distributed/Mobile Deep Learning with Dynamic, Mutation-aware Dataflow Dep Scheduler";
     homepage = "https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mxnet/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mxnet/default.nix
index 47f4d80ad927..a9e778bdd8c6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mxnet/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mxnet/default.nix
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@
 , graphviz
 , python
 , isPy3k
+, isPy310
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage {
-  inherit (pkgs.mxnet) pname version src meta;
+  inherit (pkgs.mxnet) pname version src;
 
   buildInputs = [ pkgs.mxnet ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ requests numpy graphviz ];
@@ -32,4 +33,7 @@ buildPythonPackage {
     ln -s ${pkgs.mxnet}/lib/libmxnet.so $out/${python.sitePackages}/mxnet
   '';
 
+  meta = pkgs.mxnet.meta // {
+    broken = (pkgs.mxnet.broken or false) || (isPy310 && pkgs.mxnet.cudaSupport);
+  };
 }