diff --git a/test/cases/cross-distro.sh b/test/cases/cross-distro.sh
index 3bf2894de..72ad1a533 100755
--- a/test/cases/cross-distro.sh
+++ b/test/cases/cross-distro.sh
@@ -108,7 +108,12 @@ fi
 # Filter out beta and centos-stream, see GH issue #2257
 ALL_DISTROS=$(find "$REPO_PATH" -name '*.json' -printf '%P\n' | awk -F "." '{ print $1 }')
 ALL_EXPECTED_DISTROS=$(echo "$ALL_DISTROS" | grep -E "$PATTERN" | grep -Ev 'beta|stream' | sort)
-ALL_REMAINDERS=$(echo "$ALL_DISTROS" | grep -v "$RECOGNIZED_DISTROS")
+# Warning: filter out the remaining distros by matching whole words to avoid matching
+# the value rhel-93 by the pattern rhel-9!
+# If we're running on a RHEL 9.2 osbuild-composer doesn't know anything about 9.3
+# images so the value rhel-9.3 should be treated as unrecognized and error out as
+# expected in the test snippet further below
+ALL_REMAINDERS=$(echo "$ALL_DISTROS" | grep -vw "$RECOGNIZED_DISTROS")
 
 # Check for any missing distros based on the expected host pattern
 if [ "$ALL_EXPECTED_DISTROS" != "$INSTALLED_DISTROS" ];then