diff --git a/assets/queries/dockerCompose/volume_has_sensitive_host_directory/query.rego b/assets/queries/dockerCompose/volume_has_sensitive_host_directory/query.rego
index a2aea517042..f4094dda210 100644
--- a/assets/queries/dockerCompose/volume_has_sensitive_host_directory/query.rego
+++ b/assets/queries/dockerCompose/volume_has_sensitive_host_directory/query.rego
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ CxPolicy[result] {
     volumes := service_parameters.volumes
     volume := volumes[v]
     path := split(volume,":")
+    count(path) > 1
     host_path := path[0]
  	common_lib.isOSDir(host_path)
 
diff --git a/assets/queries/dockerCompose/volume_has_sensitive_host_directory/test/negative4.yaml b/assets/queries/dockerCompose/volume_has_sensitive_host_directory/test/negative4.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d0b0e206fa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/queries/dockerCompose/volume_has_sensitive_host_directory/test/negative4.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+version: "3.9"
+
+services:
+  frontend:
+    image: node:20
+    volumes:
+      - /usr/src/app/node_modules
diff --git a/assets/queries/dockerCompose/volume_has_sensitive_host_directory/test/positive1.yaml b/assets/queries/dockerCompose/volume_has_sensitive_host_directory/test/positive1.yaml
index ddf82be8378..0f2007a1e39 100644
--- a/assets/queries/dockerCompose/volume_has_sensitive_host_directory/test/positive1.yaml
+++ b/assets/queries/dockerCompose/volume_has_sensitive_host_directory/test/positive1.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ services:
   backup:
     image: backup-service
     volumes:
-      - /var/lib/backup/data
+      - /var/lib/backup/data:/backup/data
 
 volumes:
   data-volume: