diff --git a/npm-shrinkwrap.json b/npm-shrinkwrap.json
index 22810fcdbe..132da7c9b4 100644
--- a/npm-shrinkwrap.json
+++ b/npm-shrinkwrap.json
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
         "easy-table": "^1.2.0",
         "jmespath": "^0.16.0",
         "json-to-ast": "^2.1.0",
-        "minimist": "^1.2.8",
         "node-forge": "^1.3.1",
         "omelette": "^0.4.17",
         "open": "^10.1.0",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7270284aaf..7f28a89ce6 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -271,7 +271,6 @@
     "easy-table": "^1.2.0",
     "jmespath": "^0.16.0",
     "json-to-ast": "^2.1.0",
-    "minimist": "^1.2.8",
     "node-forge": "^1.3.1",
     "omelette": "^0.4.17",
     "open": "^10.1.0",
diff --git a/src/cli/cli.spec.ts b/src/cli/cli.spec.ts
index 2e0273848e..cd3d198d15 100644
--- a/src/cli/cli.spec.ts
+++ b/src/cli/cli.spec.ts
@@ -1859,4 +1859,17 @@ describe('cli', () => {
     await cli.execute(['cli', 'completion', 'sh', 'update']);
     assert(loadAllCommandsInfoStub.calledWith(true));
   });
+
+  it('validates if yargs parser has correct configuration', async () => {
+    const yargsConfiguration = cli.yargsConfiguration;
+
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(yargsConfiguration, {
+      'parse-numbers': true,
+      'strip-aliased': true,
+      'strip-dashed': true,
+      'dot-notation': false,
+      'boolean-negation': true,
+      'camel-case-expansion': false
+    });
+  });
 });
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diff --git a/src/cli/cli.ts b/src/cli/cli.ts
index 9849e126c5..67cb4c581d 100644
--- a/src/cli/cli.ts
+++ b/src/cli/cli.ts
@@ -48,6 +48,14 @@ const defaultHelpMode = 'options';
 const defaultHelpTarget = 'console';
 const helpModes: string[] = ['options', 'examples', 'remarks', 'response', 'full'];
 const helpTargets: string[] = ['console', 'web'];
+const yargsConfiguration: Partial<yargs.Configuration> = {
+  'parse-numbers': true,
+  'strip-aliased': true,
+  'strip-dashed': true,
+  'dot-notation': false,
+  'boolean-negation': true,
+  'camel-case-expansion': false
+};
 
 function getConfig(): Configstore {
   if (!_config) {
@@ -166,7 +174,7 @@ async function execute(rawArgs: string[]): Promise<void> {
     if (!result.success) {
       return cli.closeWithError(result.error, cli.optionsFromArgs, true);
     }
-    
+
     finalArgs = result.data;
   }
   else {
@@ -477,11 +485,7 @@ function getCommandOptions(command: Command): CommandOptionInfo[] {
 function getCommandOptionsFromArgs(args: string[], commandInfo: CommandInfo | undefined): yargs.Arguments {
   const yargsOptions: yargs.Options = {
     alias: {},
-    configuration: {
-      "parse-numbers": false,
-      "strip-aliased": true,
-      "strip-dashed": true
-    }
+    configuration: yargsConfiguration
   };
 
   let argsToParse = args;
@@ -1015,5 +1019,6 @@ export const cli = {
   printAvailableCommands,
   promptForConfirmation,
   promptForSelection,
-  shouldTrimOutput
+  shouldTrimOutput,
+  yargsConfiguration
 };
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