diff --git a/src/installer/corehost/CMakeLists.txt b/src/installer/corehost/CMakeLists.txt
index 85f683241925720a8fc94490a564d73f3101b283..2b8473f47e9eb7b1bfaa59d8397408fe3aa9eb36 100644
--- a/src/installer/corehost/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/installer/corehost/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.14)
 
+project(corehost)
+
 include(../settings.cmake)
 include(../functions.cmake)
 add_subdirectory(cli)
diff --git a/src/installer/managed/Microsoft.NET.HostModel/AppHost/HostWriter.cs b/src/installer/managed/Microsoft.NET.HostModel/AppHost/HostWriter.cs
index 9922c6103c6dae9625ce62aae327be88d5109593..3215ed415b3b2869a6c4d728be4ee19a6fe8412a 100644
--- a/src/installer/managed/Microsoft.NET.HostModel/AppHost/HostWriter.cs
+++ b/src/installer/managed/Microsoft.NET.HostModel/AppHost/HostWriter.cs
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 // Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE file in the project root for full license information.
 
 using System;
+using System.ComponentModel;
 using System.IO;
 using System.IO.MemoryMappedFiles;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Threading;
 
@@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ public static class HostWriter
         /// hash value embedded in default apphost executable in a place where the path to the app binary should be stored.
         /// </summary>
         private const string AppBinaryPathPlaceholder = "c3ab8ff13720e8ad9047dd39466b3c8974e592c2fa383d4a3960714caef0c4f2";
-        private readonly static byte[] AppBinaryPathPlaceholderSearchValue = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(AppBinaryPathPlaceholder);
+        private static readonly byte[] AppBinaryPathPlaceholderSearchValue = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(AppBinaryPathPlaceholder);
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Create an AppHost with embedded configuration of app binary location
@@ -43,6 +45,7 @@ public static class HostWriter
             }
 
             BinaryUtils.CopyFile(appHostSourceFilePath, appHostDestinationFilePath);
+
             bool appHostIsPEImage = false;
 
             void RewriteAppHost()
@@ -70,7 +73,7 @@ void RewriteAppHost()
             }
 
             void UpdateResources()
-            { 
+            {
                 if (assemblyToCopyResorcesFrom != null && appHostIsPEImage)
                 {
                     if (ResourceUpdater.IsSupportedOS())
@@ -89,6 +92,24 @@ void UpdateResources()
 
             try
             {
+                if (!RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows))
+                {
+                    var filePermissionOctal = Convert.ToInt32("755", 8); // -rwxr-xr-x
+                    const int EINTR = 4;
+                    int chmodReturnCode = 0;
+
+                    do
+                    {
+                        chmodReturnCode = chmod(appHostDestinationFilePath, filePermissionOctal);
+                    }
+                    while (chmodReturnCode == -1 && Marshal.GetLastWin32Error() == EINTR);
+
+                    if (chmodReturnCode == -1)
+                    {
+                        throw new Win32Exception(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error(), $"Could not set file permission {filePermissionOctal} for {appHostDestinationFilePath}.");
+                    }
+                }
+
                 RetryUtil.RetryOnIOError(RewriteAppHost);
 
                 RetryUtil.RetryOnWin32Error(UpdateResources);
@@ -133,14 +154,14 @@ void UpdateResources()
             };
 
             // Re-write the destination apphost with the proper contents.
-            RetryUtil.RetryOnIOError(() => 
+            RetryUtil.RetryOnIOError(() =>
                 BinaryUtils.SearchAndReplace(appHostPath,
                                              bundleHeaderPlaceholder,
-                                             BitConverter.GetBytes(bundleHeaderOffset), 
-                                             pad0s:false));
+                                             BitConverter.GetBytes(bundleHeaderOffset),
+                                             pad0s: false));
 
             // Memory-mapped write does not updating last write time
-            RetryUtil.RetryOnIOError(() => 
+            RetryUtil.RetryOnIOError(() =>
                 File.SetLastWriteTimeUtc(appHostPath, DateTime.UtcNow));
         }
 
@@ -183,5 +204,8 @@ void FindBundleHeader()
 
             return headerOffset != 0;
         }
+
+        [DllImport("libc", SetLastError = true)]
+        private static extern int chmod(string pathname, int mode);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/installer/test/Directory.Build.props b/src/installer/test/Directory.Build.props
index 4b971c5b5b9b59ae732b0d68ebc2ebcd727da755..b3eaee01f0db5526c89eb71fc392a275f3825d78 100644
--- a/src/installer/test/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/src/installer/test/Directory.Build.props
@@ -12,4 +12,14 @@
     <TestInfraTargetFramework>netcoreapp3.0</TestInfraTargetFramework>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <TargetOSTrait Condition="'$(OSGroup)' == 'Windows_NT'">nonwindowstests</TargetOSTrait>
+    <TargetOSTrait Condition="'$(OSGroup)' == 'Linux'">nonlinuxtests</TargetOSTrait>
+    <TargetOSTrait Condition="'$(OSGroup)' == 'OSX'">nonosxtests</TargetOSTrait>
+    <TargetOSTrait Condition="'$(OSGroup)' == 'FreeBSD'">nonfreebsdtests</TargetOSTrait>
+    <TargetOSTrait Condition="'$(OSGroup)' == 'NetBSD'">nonnetbsdtests</TargetOSTrait>
+
+    <TestRunnerAdditionalArguments Condition="'$(TargetOSTrait)' != ''">-notrait category=$(TargetOSTrait)</TestRunnerAdditionalArguments>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/installer/test/HostActivation.Tests/HostActivation.Tests.csproj b/src/installer/test/HostActivation.Tests/HostActivation.Tests.csproj
index 76c372036eafb03ec92af1e9037621613ada8dbe..47fbf5659a81da1ede3c1354f0ae3c3fa6190baa 100644
--- a/src/installer/test/HostActivation.Tests/HostActivation.Tests.csproj
+++ b/src/installer/test/HostActivation.Tests/HostActivation.Tests.csproj
@@ -21,9 +21,8 @@
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="9.0.1" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyModel" Version="2.1.0" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.DotNet.PlatformAbstractions" Version="2.1.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.DotNet.PlatformAbstractions" Version="$(MicrosoftDotNetPlatformAbstractionsPackageVersion)" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Win32.Registry" Version="4.3.0" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
diff --git a/src/installer/test/Microsoft.NET.HostModel.Tests/Microsoft.NET.HostModel.AppHost.Tests/AppHostUpdateTests.cs b/src/installer/test/Microsoft.NET.HostModel.Tests/Microsoft.NET.HostModel.AppHost.Tests/AppHostUpdateTests.cs
index aaf2ae7e452187baf4ad9f21629364fac9c4ffb7..a48ea53931957121796664aa9a842eb673d88c29 100644
--- a/src/installer/test/Microsoft.NET.HostModel.Tests/Microsoft.NET.HostModel.AppHost.Tests/AppHostUpdateTests.cs
+++ b/src/installer/test/Microsoft.NET.HostModel.Tests/Microsoft.NET.HostModel.AppHost.Tests/AppHostUpdateTests.cs
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
+// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
+// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
+// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
+
 using System;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
+using System.Reflection;
 using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 using System.Text;
 using FluentAssertions;
 using Xunit;
@@ -160,6 +166,42 @@ public void ItFailsToSetGUISubsystemWithWrongDefault()
             }
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        [PlatformSpecific(TestPlatforms.AnyUnix)]
+        public void ItGeneratesExecutableImage()
+        {
+            using (TestDirectory testDirectory = TestDirectory.Create())
+            {
+                string sourceAppHostMock = PrepareAppHostMockFile(testDirectory);
+                string destinationFilePath = Path.Combine(testDirectory.Path, "DestinationAppHost.exe.mock");
+                string appBinaryFilePath = "Test/App/Binary/Path.dll";
+
+                chmod(sourceAppHostMock, Convert.ToInt32("444", 8)) // make it readonly: -r--r--r--
+                    .Should()
+                    .NotBe(-1);
+
+                GetLastError()
+                    .Should()
+                    .NotBe(4); // EINTR
+
+                GetFilePermissionValue(sourceAppHostMock)
+                    .Should()
+                    .Be(Convert.ToInt32("444", 8));
+
+                HostWriter.CreateAppHost(
+                    sourceAppHostMock,
+                    destinationFilePath,
+                    appBinaryFilePath,
+                    windowsGraphicalUserInterface: true);
+
+                GetFilePermissionValue(destinationFilePath)
+                    .Should()
+                    .Be(Convert.ToInt32("755", 8));
+            }
+
+            int GetLastError() => Marshal.GetLastWin32Error();
+        }
+
         private string PrepareAppHostMockFile(TestDirectory testDirectory, Action<byte[]> customize = null)
         {
             // For now we're testing the AppHost on Windows PE files only.
@@ -206,6 +248,64 @@ private string PrepareAppHostMockFile(TestDirectory testDirectory, Action<byte[]
             0, 112, 2, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 96, 193, 0, 0, 24,
             0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 16, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
 
+        [DllImport("libc", SetLastError = true)]
+        private static extern int chmod(string pathname, int mode);
+
+        private static int GetFilePermissionValue(string path)
+        {
+            var modeValue = CoreFxFileStatusProvider.GetFileMode(path);
+
+            // st_mode is typically a 16-bits value, high 4 bits are filetype and low 12
+            // bits are permission. we will clear first 20 bits (a byte and a nibble) with
+            // the following mask:
+            modeValue &= 0x1ff;
+
+            modeValue
+                .Should()
+                .BeInRange(0, 511);
+
+            return modeValue;
+        }
+
+        private static class CoreFxFileStatusProvider
+        {
+            private static FieldInfo s_fileSystem_fileStatusField, s_fileStatus_fileStatusField, s_fileStatusModeField;
+
+            static CoreFxFileStatusProvider()
+            {
+                if (!RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows))
+                {
+                    try
+                    {
+                        s_fileSystem_fileStatusField = typeof(FileSystemInfo).GetField("_fileStatus", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
+                        s_fileStatus_fileStatusField = s_fileSystem_fileStatusField.FieldType.GetField("_fileStatus", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
+                        s_fileStatusModeField = s_fileStatus_fileStatusField.FieldType.GetField("Mode", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
+                    }
+                    catch (Exception ex)
+                    {
+                        throw new Exception("Cannot setup _fileStatus via private reflection from CoreFX. Verify if the FileSystem._fileStatus._fileStatus.Mode chain is intact in CoreFX, otherwise adjust this implementation", ex);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            public static int GetFileMode(string path)
+            {
+                try
+                {
+                    var fileInfo = new FileInfo(path);
+                    _ = fileInfo.IsReadOnly; // this is to implicitly initialize FileInfo -> FileSystem -> fielStatus instance
+
+                    return (int)s_fileStatusModeField.GetValue(
+                               s_fileStatus_fileStatusField.GetValue(
+                                   s_fileSystem_fileStatusField.GetValue(fileInfo)));
+                }
+                catch (Exception ex)
+                {
+                    throw new Exception("Cannot get stat (2) st_mode via private reflection from CoreFX. Verify if the FileSystem._fileStatus.Initialize logic is exercised via FileInfo.IsReadOnly in CoreFX, otherwise adjust this implementation.", ex);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
         private class TestDirectory : IDisposable
         {
             public string Path { get; private set; }
@@ -233,4 +333,4 @@ public void Dispose()
             }
         }
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/installer/test/TestUtils/Command.cs b/src/installer/test/TestUtils/Command.cs
index b818c2bdd768c922cb6b86851275779c1f7509f0..47ef88d77ebb8ed3e60265106db3b00d6003fa3e 100644
--- a/src/installer/test/TestUtils/Command.cs
+++ b/src/installer/test/TestUtils/Command.cs
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 using System.Threading;
-using Microsoft.DotNet.InternalAbstractions;
 
 namespace Microsoft.DotNet.Cli.Build.Framework
 {
@@ -251,7 +250,7 @@ public Command WorkingDirectory(string projectDirectory)
         public Command WithUserProfile(string userprofile)
         {
             string userDir;
-            if (InternalAbstractions.RuntimeEnvironment.OperatingSystemPlatform == Platform.Windows)
+            if (RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows))
             {
                 userDir = "USERPROFILE";
             }
@@ -383,7 +382,8 @@ private void ReportExecEnd(int exitCode, bool fExpectedToFail)
                 bool success = exitCode == 0;
                 string msgExpectedToFail = "";
 
-                if (fExpectedToFail) {
+                if (fExpectedToFail)
+                {
                     success = !success;
                     msgExpectedToFail = "failed as expected and ";
                 }
diff --git a/src/installer/test/TestUtils/TestUtils.csproj b/src/installer/test/TestUtils/TestUtils.csproj
index c8513a057972e0e2970f0d6674ee471cb1bad759..a608e308e1398bde252682ac71e6ac9bb4a0f909 100644
--- a/src/installer/test/TestUtils/TestUtils.csproj
+++ b/src/installer/test/TestUtils/TestUtils.csproj
@@ -13,10 +13,9 @@
 
   <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="FluentAssertions" Version="4.19.4" />
-    <PackageReference Include="System.Runtime.Serialization.Primitives" Version="4.1.1" />
-    <PackageReference Include="xunit" Version="2.2.0" />
-    <PackageReference Include="System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation" Version="4.0.0" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.DotNet.InternalAbstractions" Version="1.0.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.DotNet.PlatformAbstractions" Version="$(MicrosoftDotNetPlatformAbstractionsPackageVersion)" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.DotNet.XUnitExtensions" Version="$(MicrosoftDotNetXUnitExtensionsPackageVersion)" />
+    <PackageReference Include="xunit.core" Version="$(XUnitPackageVersion)" ExcludeAssets="build" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
 </Project>