diff --git a/jetty-websocket/websocket-core-common/src/main/java/module-info.java b/jetty-websocket/websocket-core-common/src/main/java/module-info.java
index 9afd3e526aa0..822e3c6c6ac1 100644
--- a/jetty-websocket/websocket-core-common/src/main/java/module-info.java
+++ b/jetty-websocket/websocket-core-common/src/main/java/module-info.java
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
 
     exports org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.core.internal to
         org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.core.client,
-        org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.core.server;
+        org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.core.server,
+        org.eclipse.jetty.util; // Export to DecoratedObjectFactory.
 
     // The Jetty & Javax API Layers need to access both access some internal utilities which we don't want to expose.
     exports org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.core.internal.util to