diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ea9c7316..c4a313ef 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -107,6 +107,14 @@ Status of the `main` branch. Changes prior to the next official version change w
     thread (#2038)
 
 * Language Servers:
+  - Fix: `SafeZipExtractor` discarded Unix executable permission bits stored in extracted
+    archives' `ZipInfo.external_attr` (a long-standing stdlib `zipfile` limitation,
+    tracked upstream at https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/150061), leaving every
+    extracted file with default, non-executable permissions. This broke language servers
+    whose archive contains more than the single top-level launcher script that
+    per-language-server setup code re-chmods, e.g. the Kotlin Language Server's bundled
+    JetBrains Runtime (`jbr/bin/java` and native libs), whose launcher failed to exec it
+    with a permission error. Executable bits are now restored for every extracted file (#2100)
   - Add Astro language server support via `@astrojs/language-server` with a companion TypeScript language server (`@astrojs/ts-plugin`) for cross-file code intelligence (#2085)
   - Fix: Dart analysis server no longer receives rootUri/rootPath, which added the monorepo root as an extra analysis root and could pin a CPU core at idle (#2045)
   - Fix: The C# language server opened every `.csproj` found anywhere under the repository root,
diff --git a/src/solidlsp/util/zip.py b/src/solidlsp/util/zip.py
index 2f7a1879..43b34984 100644
--- a/src/solidlsp/util/zip.py
+++ b/src/solidlsp/util/zip.py
@@ -101,6 +101,13 @@ class SafeZipExtractor:
             with zip_ref.open(member) as source, open(final_path, "wb") as target:
                 target.write(source.read())
 
+            # stdlib zipfile does not restore Unix permission bits on extraction; tracked
+            # upstream at https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/150061
+            if os.name == "posix":
+                unix_mode = member.external_attr >> 16
+                if unix_mode:
+                    os.chmod(final_path, unix_mode)
+
             if self.verbose:
                 log.info(f"Extracted: {member.filename}")
 
diff --git a/test/solidlsp/util/test_zip.py b/test/solidlsp/util/test_zip.py
index 5fa545ba..5aaf9250 100644
--- a/test/solidlsp/util/test_zip.py
+++ b/test/solidlsp/util/test_zip.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import os
 import sys
 import zipfile
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -90,6 +91,24 @@ def test_skip_on_error(monkeypatch, temp_zip_file: Path, tmp_path: Path) -> None
     assert (dest_dir / "folder" / "file3.txt").exists()
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.platform.startswith("win"), reason="Unix permission bits are not applicable on Windows")
+def test_restores_executable_permission(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    """Executable bits stored in the archive's external_attr should be restored on extraction."""
+    zip_path = tmp_path / "exec.zip"
+    with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path, "w") as zipf:
+        info = zipfile.ZipInfo("bin/tool")
+        info.external_attr = 0o755 << 16
+        zipf.writestr(info, "#!/bin/sh\necho hi\n")
+
+    dest_dir = tmp_path / "extracted"
+    extractor = SafeZipExtractor(zip_path, dest_dir, verbose=False)
+    extractor.extract_all()
+
+    extracted_file = dest_dir / "bin" / "tool"
+    assert extracted_file.exists()
+    assert os.stat(extracted_file).st_mode & 0o111
+
+
 @pytest.mark.skipif(not sys.platform.startswith("win"), reason="Windows-only test")
 def test_long_path_normalization(temp_zip_file: Path, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     r"""Ensure _normalize_path adds \\?\\ prefix on Windows."""