diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8b994d16e8..1d32b57634 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ select = [
 ignore = [
   "E501",     # ignore line length
   "S106",     # ignore check for possible passwords
-  "S603",     # allow subprocess without shell=True
+  "S603",     # allow subprocess with shell=False, this is lower severity than those with shell=True
   "C901",     # ignore complex-structure
   "PLR0912",  # ignore too-many-branches
   "PLR0913",  # ignore too-many-arguments