diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/validation/cloudformation-validate-plugin.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/validation/cloudformation-validate-plugin.ts
index 9f7f7b364a713..a32cd82d6b413 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/validation/cloudformation-validate-plugin.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/validation/cloudformation-validate-plugin.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+import * as fs from 'fs';
 import { RegoEngine, TemplateFile, version } from '@aws/cloudformation-validate';
-import type { Engine, EngineConfig, RuleInfo, Severity } from '@aws/cloudformation-validate';
+import type { DetailedDiagnostic, Engine, EngineConfig, RuleInfo, Severity } from '@aws/cloudformation-validate';
 import type { PolicyValidationPluginReport, PolicyViolatingResource } from './report';
 import type { IPolicyValidationPlugin, IPolicyValidationContext } from './validation';
 
@@ -124,7 +125,17 @@ export class CloudFormationValidatePlugin implements IPolicyValidationPlugin {
         severityLevel: 'WARN',
       });
 
+      // Parsed lazily (and only once) because it is only needed to filter out
+      // specific engine false positives, which most templates don't trigger.
+      let parsedTemplate: any;
+      const template = () => parsedTemplate ??= JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(templatePath, 'utf-8'));
+
       for (const diagnostic of report.diagnostics) {
+        // The engine reports a false positive for ICMP security group rules; drop those findings.
+        if (diagnostic.ruleId === 'E9002' && isIcmpPortRangeFalsePositive(diagnostic, template())) {
+          continue;
+        }
+
         const severity = mapSeverity(diagnostic.severity);
 
         const violatingResource: PolicyViolatingResource = {
@@ -177,6 +188,70 @@ function mapSeverity(severity: Severity): string {
   }
 }
 
+const SECURITY_GROUP_RULE_TYPES = new Set([
+  'AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup',
+  'AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupIngress',
+  'AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupEgress',
+]);
+
+/**
+ * Whether an `E9002` ("FromPort is greater than ToPort") finding is a false positive on an ICMP rule.
+ *
+ * For ICMP/ICMPv6 security group rules the `FromPort`/`ToPort` fields encode the ICMP type and code
+ * (where `-1` means "all"), not an ordered port range, so e.g. `Port.icmpPing()` legitimately renders
+ * `FromPort: 8, ToPort: -1`. The engine's generic range check flags these as errors. We correlate the
+ * finding back to the offending rule (by the ports named in the message, since the property path only
+ * points at the rule array) and drop it only when that rule uses an ICMP protocol, leaving genuine
+ * TCP/UDP range errors — including on the same resource — reported.
+ *
+ * Remove once the engine understands ICMP rules: <https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/38389>.
+ */
+function isIcmpPortRangeFalsePositive(diagnostic: DetailedDiagnostic, template: any): boolean {
+  if (!diagnostic.resourceType || !SECURITY_GROUP_RULE_TYPES.has(diagnostic.resourceType)) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  const match = /FromPort (-?\d+) is greater than ToPort (-?\d+)/.exec(diagnostic.message ?? '');
+  if (!match) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  const fromPort = Number(match[1]);
+  const toPort = Number(match[2]);
+
+  const resource = template?.Resources?.[diagnostic.resourceId ?? ''];
+  if (!resource) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  const props = resource.Properties ?? {};
+  // A rule can live in a SecurityGroup's inline ingress/egress arrays, or be the standalone
+  // SecurityGroupIngress/Egress resource's own properties.
+  const rules = [
+    ...(Array.isArray(props.SecurityGroupIngress) ? props.SecurityGroupIngress : []),
+    ...(Array.isArray(props.SecurityGroupEgress) ? props.SecurityGroupEgress : []),
+    props,
+  ];
+
+  return rules.some((rule) => rule != null
+    && isIcmpProtocol(rule.IpProtocol)
+    && Number(rule.FromPort) === fromPort
+    && Number(rule.ToPort) === toPort);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether an `IpProtocol` value refers to ICMP or ICMPv6, given either as a name or an IANA number.
+ */
+function isIcmpProtocol(protocol: unknown): boolean {
+  if (typeof protocol === 'string') {
+    const normalized = protocol.toLowerCase();
+    return normalized === 'icmp' || normalized === 'icmpv6' || normalized === '1' || normalized === '58';
+  }
+  if (typeof protocol === 'number') {
+    return protocol === 1 || protocol === 58;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
 // Rules that the engine will report but we want to ignore because CDK creates
 // the violation and customers don't control it.
 const IGNORE_RULES = new Set([
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/test/validation/cloudformation-validate-plugin.test.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/test/validation/cloudformation-validate-plugin.test.ts
index b1b0542ffd305..78484ad8d9d09 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/test/validation/cloudformation-validate-plugin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/test/validation/cloudformation-validate-plugin.test.ts
@@ -300,6 +300,82 @@ describe('CloudFormationValidatePlugin', () => {
 
     fs.rmSync(tmpDir, { recursive: true });
   });
+
+  describe('ICMP E9002 false positive suppression', () => {
+    function validateTemplate(resources: Record<string, unknown>) {
+      const tmpDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'cdk-validate-'));
+      const templatePath = path.join(tmpDir, 'template.json');
+      fs.writeFileSync(templatePath, JSON.stringify({ Resources: resources }));
+      try {
+        return new core.CloudFormationValidatePlugin().validate({
+          templatePaths: [templatePath],
+          stackTemplates: [{ stackConstructPath: 'TestStack', templatePath }],
+          appConstruct: new Construct(undefined as any, ''),
+          accountId: undefined,
+          region: undefined,
+        });
+      } finally {
+        fs.rmSync(tmpDir, { recursive: true });
+      }
+    }
+
+    // For ICMP rules, FromPort/ToPort are the ICMP type/code (with -1 meaning "all"), not an ordered
+    // port range, so the engine's generic "FromPort > ToPort" check (E9002) is a false positive.
+    test.each([
+      ['icmp', 8],
+      ['icmpv6', 128],
+      ['1', 8], // IANA protocol number for ICMP
+    ])('does not report E9002 for an ICMP rule (IpProtocol: %s)', (ipProtocol, fromPort) => {
+      const report = validateTemplate({
+        IcmpSg: {
+          Type: 'AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup',
+          Properties: {
+            GroupDescription: 'test',
+            SecurityGroupIngress: [
+              { CidrIp: '0.0.0.0/0', FromPort: fromPort, IpProtocol: ipProtocol, ToPort: -1 },
+            ],
+          },
+        },
+      });
+
+      expect(report.violations.find(v => v.ruleName === 'E9002')).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+
+    test('still reports E9002 for a genuine TCP range error', () => {
+      const report = validateTemplate({
+        BadTcpSg: {
+          Type: 'AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup',
+          Properties: {
+            GroupDescription: 'test',
+            SecurityGroupIngress: [
+              { CidrIp: '0.0.0.0/0', FromPort: 443, IpProtocol: 'tcp', ToPort: 80 },
+            ],
+          },
+        },
+      });
+
+      expect(report.violations.find(v => v.ruleName === 'E9002')).toBeDefined();
+    });
+
+    test('suppresses only the ICMP finding when a resource mixes ICMP and a bad TCP range', () => {
+      const report = validateTemplate({
+        MixedSg: {
+          Type: 'AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup',
+          Properties: {
+            GroupDescription: 'test',
+            SecurityGroupIngress: [
+              { CidrIp: '0.0.0.0/0', FromPort: 8, IpProtocol: 'icmp', ToPort: -1 },
+              { CidrIp: '0.0.0.0/0', FromPort: 443, IpProtocol: 'tcp', ToPort: 80 },
+            ],
+          },
+        },
+      });
+
+      const e9002 = report.violations.filter(v => v.ruleName === 'E9002');
+      expect(e9002).toHaveLength(1);
+      expect(e9002[0].description).toContain('FromPort 443 is greater than ToPort 80');
+    });
+  });
 });
 
 describe('CDK_VALIDATION environment variable', () => {