diff --git a/docs/kbase/launch_security_sev.rst b/docs/kbase/launch_security_sev.rst
index 4a37c0c379..8f58413261 100644
--- a/docs/kbase/launch_security_sev.rst
+++ b/docs/kbase/launch_security_sev.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ You can manually check whether SEV is among the CPU flags with:
 
 ::
 
-   $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep sev
+   $ grep -w sev /proc/cpuinfo
    ...
    sme ssbd sev ibpb