diff --git a/infra/base-images/base-runner/coverage b/infra/base-images/base-runner/coverage
index 57b537c44..31356cf9b 100755
--- a/infra/base-images/base-runner/coverage
+++ b/infra/base-images/base-runner/coverage
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ function run_java_fuzz_target {
   # Use 100s timeout instead of 25s as code coverage builds can be very slow.
   local jacoco_args="destfile=$exec_file,classdumpdir=$class_dump_dir,excludes=com.code_intelligence.jazzer.*"
   local args="-merge=1 -timeout=100 -close_fd_mask=3 --nohooks \
-      --jvm_args=-javaagent:/opt/jacoco-agent.jar=$jacoco_args \
+      --additional_jvm_args=-javaagent:/opt/jacoco-agent.jar=$jacoco_args \
       $corpus_dummy $corpus_real"
 
   timeout $TIMEOUT $OUT/$target $args &> $LOGS_DIR/$target.log