diff --git a/acceptance/tests-v2/mesh/mesh_inject_test.go b/acceptance/tests-v2/mesh/mesh_inject_test.go
index e6deb4aa8c..0ebccbc7ab 100644
--- a/acceptance/tests-v2/mesh/mesh_inject_test.go
+++ b/acceptance/tests-v2/mesh/mesh_inject_test.go
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/acceptance/framework/logger"
 )
 
+const multiport = "multiport"
+
 // Test that mesh sidecar proxies work for an application with multiple ports. The multiport application is a Pod listening on
 // two ports. This tests inbound connections to each port of the multiport app, and outbound connections from the
 // multiport app to static-server.
@@ -35,8 +37,8 @@ func TestMeshInject_MultiportService(t *testing.T) {
 			ctx := suite.Environment().DefaultContext(t)
 
 			helmValues := map[string]string{
-				"global.image":                "ndhanushkodi/consul-dev:multiport36",
-				"global.imageK8S":             "ndhanushkodi/consul-k8s-dev:multiport20",
+				"global.image":                "ndhanushkodi/consul-dev:multiport37",
+				"global.imageK8S":             "ndhanushkodi/consul-k8s-dev:multiport25",
 				"global.imageConsulDataplane": "hashicorppreview/consul-dataplane:1.3-dev",
 				"global.experiments[0]":       "resource-apis",
 				// The UI is not supported for v2 in 1.17, so for now it must be disabled.
@@ -79,6 +81,22 @@ func TestMeshInject_MultiportService(t *testing.T) {
 
 			// Check connection from static-client to multiport-admin.
 			k8s.CheckStaticServerConnectionSuccessfulWithMessage(t, ctx.KubectlOptions(t), connhelper.StaticClientName, "hello world from 9090 admin", "http://multiport:9090")
+
+			// Test that kubernetes readiness status is synced to Consul. This will make the multi port pods unhealthy
+			// and check inbound connections to the multi port pods' services.
+			// Create the files so that the readiness probes of the multi port pod fails.
+			logger.Log(t, "testing k8s -> consul health checks sync by making the multiport unhealthy")
+			k8s.RunKubectl(t, ctx.KubectlOptions(t), "exec", "deploy/"+multiport, "-c", "multiport", "--", "touch", "/tmp/unhealthy-multiport")
+			logger.Log(t, "testing k8s -> consul health checks sync by making the multiport-admin unhealthy")
+			k8s.RunKubectl(t, ctx.KubectlOptions(t), "exec", "deploy/"+multiport, "-c", "multiport-admin", "--", "touch", "/tmp/unhealthy-multiport-admin")
+
+			// The readiness probe should take a moment to be reflected in Consul, CheckStaticServerConnection will retry
+			// until Consul marks the service instance unavailable for mesh traffic, causing the connection to fail.
+			// We are expecting a "connection reset by peer" error because in a case of health checks,
+			// there will be no healthy proxy host to connect to. That's why we can't assert that we receive an empty reply
+			// from server, which is the case when a connection is unsuccessful due to intentions in other tests.
+			k8s.CheckStaticServerConnectionMultipleFailureMessages(t, ctx.KubectlOptions(t), connhelper.StaticClientName, false, []string{"curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer", "curl: (52) Empty reply from server"}, "", "http://multiport:8080")
+			k8s.CheckStaticServerConnectionMultipleFailureMessages(t, ctx.KubectlOptions(t), connhelper.StaticClientName, false, []string{"curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer", "curl: (52) Empty reply from server"}, "", "http://multiport:9090")
 		})
 	}
 }
diff --git a/control-plane/connect-inject/controllers/pod/pod_controller.go b/control-plane/connect-inject/controllers/pod/pod_controller.go
index 9feb090043..358aebf9e4 100644
--- a/control-plane/connect-inject/controllers/pod/pod_controller.go
+++ b/control-plane/connect-inject/controllers/pod/pod_controller.go
@@ -815,6 +815,7 @@ func getHealthStatusFromPod(pod corev1.Pod) pbcatalog.Health {
 			return pbcatalog.Health_HEALTH_PASSING
 		}
 	}
+
 	return pbcatalog.Health_HEALTH_CRITICAL
 }