diff --git a/sdk/mx.sdk/mx_bisect_strategy.py b/sdk/mx.sdk/mx_bisect_strategy.py
index eb5e5e9ea798..843a5aff4233 100644
--- a/sdk/mx.sdk/mx_bisect_strategy.py
+++ b/sdk/mx.sdk/mx_bisect_strategy.py
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ def _fetch_jdk(self, jdk_id, paths):
             # Change directory so that fetch-jdk finds common.json and jdk-binaries.json in repo_path
             old_cwd = os.getcwd()
             os.chdir(repo_path)
-            jdk_home = mx_fetchjdk.fetch_jdk(['--to', tempfile.gettempdir(), '--jdk-id', jdk_id, ''])
+            jdk_home = mx_fetchjdk.fetch_jdk(['--to', tempfile.gettempdir(), '--jdk-id', jdk_id])
             self._jdk_home = jdk_home
             os.environ['JAVA_HOME'] = jdk_home
         except (OSError, IOError) as err: