diff --git a/test/extended/node/node_e2e/node.go b/test/extended/node/node_e2e/node.go
index 4bad5ff9a1b6..5a7429ab006d 100644
--- a/test/extended/node/node_e2e/node.go
+++ b/test/extended/node/node_e2e/node.go
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 package node
 
 import (
-	"context"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	g "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
 	o "github.com/onsi/gomega"
-	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait"
 	e2e "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework"
 
@@ -115,13 +113,18 @@ var _ = g.Describe("[sig-node] [Jira:Node/Kubelet] Kubelet, CRI-O, CPU manager",
 		podName := "pod-devfuse"
 		ns := "devfuse-test"
 
-		g.By("Check if the default CRI-O runtime is runc")
-		ctrcfgList, err := oc.MachineConfigurationClient().MachineconfigurationV1().ContainerRuntimeConfigs().List(context.Background(), metav1.ListOptions{})
+		// Skip on runc: io.kubernetes.cri-o.Devices annotation is only in crun's allowed_annotations.
+		// We query crio config directly as ContainerRuntimeConfig API misses platform-default runc.
+		g.By("Skip if the default runtime is runc")
+		node, err := oc.AsAdmin().WithoutNamespace().Run("get").Args(
+			"nodes", "-l", "node-role.kubernetes.io/worker", "-o=jsonpath={.items[0].metadata.name}").Output()
 		o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())
-		for _, cfg := range ctrcfgList.Items {
-			if cfg.Spec.ContainerRuntimeConfig != nil && cfg.Spec.ContainerRuntimeConfig.DefaultRuntime == "runc" {
-				g.Skip("Skipping: not applicable to runc runtime")
-			}
+		o.Expect(node).NotTo(o.BeEmpty())
+		runtime, err := nodeutils.ExecOnNodeWithChroot(oc, node, "/bin/bash", "-c",
+			"crio status config 2>/dev/null | awk -F'\"' '/default_runtime/{print $2}'")
+		o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())
+		if strings.TrimSpace(runtime) == "runc" {
+			g.Skip("Skipping: not applicable to runc runtime")
 		}
 
 		g.By("Create a test namespace")