diff --git a/deployment/clouddeploy/gke-workers/environments/oss-vdb-test/importer.yaml b/deployment/clouddeploy/gke-workers/environments/oss-vdb-test/importer.yaml
index 032e92e6f60..62e30052536 100644
--- a/deployment/clouddeploy/gke-workers/environments/oss-vdb-test/importer.yaml
+++ b/deployment/clouddeploy/gke-workers/environments/oss-vdb-test/importer.yaml
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ spec:
               # Note that with https://github.com/google/osv.dev/pull/2766
               # addition per-repository settings make this *really* take effect, see
               # https://github.com/google/osv.dev/pull/2837
-              - "--strict_validation=True"
+              - "--strict_validation"