diff --git a/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/blobstore/AbstractBlobContainerRetriesTestCase.java b/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/blobstore/AbstractBlobContainerRetriesTestCase.java
index 12094b31a049d..9e955fa727d76 100644
--- a/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/blobstore/AbstractBlobContainerRetriesTestCase.java
+++ b/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/blobstore/AbstractBlobContainerRetriesTestCase.java
@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ public void testReadBlobWithPrematureConnectionClose() {
                 containsString("premature end of chunk coded message body: closing chunk expected"),
                 containsString("premature end of content-length delimited message body"),
                 containsString("connection closed prematurely"),
+                containsString("premature eof"),
                 // if we didn't call exchange.getResponseBody().flush() then we might not even have sent the response headers:
                 alwaysFlushBody ? never() : containsString("the target server failed to respond")
             )