diff --git a/modules/repository-s3/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/s3/S3RetryingInputStreamTests.java b/modules/repository-s3/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/s3/S3RetryingInputStreamTests.java
index e735bae25f662..c4cd31f444144 100644
--- a/modules/repository-s3/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/s3/S3RetryingInputStreamTests.java
+++ b/modules/repository-s3/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/s3/S3RetryingInputStreamTests.java
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ public void testReadAfterBlobLengthThrowsRequestedRangeNotSatisfiedException() t
     }
 
     public void testContentRangeValidation() throws IOException {
-        final byte[] bytes = randomByteArrayOfLength(between(100, 200));
+        final byte[] bytes = randomByteArrayOfLength(between(101, 200));
         final int position = between(0, 100);
         final int length = between(1, 100);
         try (var stream = createInputStream(bytes, position, length)) {