diff --git a/hooks/terraform-fmt.sh b/hooks/terraform-fmt.sh
index ba8c3741..565f201c 100755
--- a/hooks/terraform-fmt.sh
+++ b/hooks/terraform-fmt.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ set -e
 # OSX GUI apps do not pick up environment variables the same way as Terminal apps and there are no easy solutions,
 # especially as Apple changes the GUI app behavior every release (see https://stackoverflow.com/q/135688/483528). As a
 # workaround to allow GitHub Desktop to work, add this (hopefully harmless) setting here.
+original_path=$PATH
 export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
 
 # Store and return last failure from fmt so this can validate every directory passed before exiting
@@ -14,4 +15,7 @@ for file in "$@"; do
   terraform fmt -diff -check "$file" || FMT_ERROR=$?
 done
 
+# reset path to the original value
+export PATH=$original_path
+
 exit ${FMT_ERROR}