diff --git a/inspec-core.gemspec b/inspec-core.gemspec
index 6f582af72..23e884ddc 100644
--- a/inspec-core.gemspec
+++ b/inspec-core.gemspec
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   # Implementation dependencies
   spec.add_dependency "chef-telemetry",     "~> 1.0", ">= 1.0.8" # 1.0.8+ removes the http dep
   spec.add_dependency "license-acceptance", ">= 0.2.13", "< 3.0"
-  spec.add_dependency "thor",               ">= 0.20", "< 2.0"
+  # TODO: We should remove the thor pinning in next upcoming releases currently it's breaking our unit test in cli_args_test for aliases due to
+  # recent changes made in thor library REF: https://github.com/rails/thor/releases/tag/v1.3.0 & https://github.com/rails/thor/pull/800
+  spec.add_dependency "thor",               ">= 0.20", "< 1.3.0"
   spec.add_dependency "method_source",      ">= 0.8", "< 2.0"
   spec.add_dependency "rubyzip",            ">= 1.2.2", "< 3.0"
   spec.add_dependency "rspec",              ">= 3.9", "<= 3.13"