diff --git a/.changeset/tidy-snails-smile.md b/.changeset/tidy-snails-smile.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..546ec86bd8e63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/tidy-snails-smile.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@rocket.chat/apps": patch
+---
+
+Fixes app startup failing with EACCES errors in docker deployments running with specified UIDs
diff --git a/packages/apps/src/server/runtime/deno/AppsEngineDenoRuntime.ts b/packages/apps/src/server/runtime/deno/AppsEngineDenoRuntime.ts
index 430185a94ca77..8641bdcabe73a 100644
--- a/packages/apps/src/server/runtime/deno/AppsEngineDenoRuntime.ts
+++ b/packages/apps/src/server/runtime/deno/AppsEngineDenoRuntime.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ function getDenoConfigPath(): string {
  *
  * Returns the path to the generated config file.
  */
-function generateEphemeralDenoConfig(targetPath: string, denoConfigPath: string, appsEnginePath: string): void {
+function generateEphemeralDenoConfig(targetPath: string, denoConfigPath: string, appsEnginePath: string, packagePath: string): void {
 	let staticConfig: DenoConfigurationFileSchema;
 
 	try {
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ function generateEphemeralDenoConfig(targetPath: string, denoConfigPath: string,
 		imports: {
 			...staticConfig.imports,
 			'@rocket.chat/apps-engine/': `${appsEnginePath}/`,
+			'@rocket.chat/apps/base-runtime/': `${path.join(packagePath, 'base-runtime', 'src')}/`,
+			'@rocket.chat/apps/': `${packagePath}/`,
 		},
 	};
 
@@ -67,7 +69,7 @@ export class DenoRuntimeSubprocessController extends BaseRuntimeSubprocessContro
 		this.denoDir = process.env.DENO_DIR ?? path.join(this.packagePath, '.deno-cache');
 
 		this.denoRuntimePath = path.join(this.tempFilePath, 'deno-runtime', 'main.ts');
-		this.denoEphemeralConfigPath = this.denoConfigPath.replace('.jsonc', '.runtime.jsonc');
+		this.denoEphemeralConfigPath = path.join(this.tempFilePath, 'deno.runtime.jsonc');
 
 		/**
 		 * Deno 2.x refuses to run scripts inside the node_modules, so we create a symlink to the deno runtime files in the temp directory
@@ -81,8 +83,8 @@ export class DenoRuntimeSubprocessController extends BaseRuntimeSubprocessContro
 			}
 		}
 
-		// Generate a runtime config with the resolved absolute path for @rocket.chat/apps-engine/
-		generateEphemeralDenoConfig(this.denoEphemeralConfigPath, this.denoConfigPath, this.appsEnginePath);
+		// Generate a runtime config with the resolved absolute path for @rocket.chat/apps-engine/ and @rocket.chat/apps/ paths
+		generateEphemeralDenoConfig(this.denoEphemeralConfigPath, this.denoConfigPath, this.appsEnginePath, this.packagePath);
 	}
 
 	protected buildProcessConfiguration(): ProcessConfiguration {