diff --git a/lucene/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/lucene/tests/index/BaseKnnVectorsFormatTestCase.java b/lucene/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/lucene/tests/index/BaseKnnVectorsFormatTestCase.java
index 3cf5944fd921..ec77299e2b6e 100644
--- a/lucene/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/lucene/tests/index/BaseKnnVectorsFormatTestCase.java
+++ b/lucene/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/lucene/tests/index/BaseKnnVectorsFormatTestCase.java
@@ -501,7 +501,10 @@ public void testIllegalDimensionTooLarge() throws Exception {
       exc = expectThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> w.addDocument(doc3));
       assertTrue(
           exc.getMessage()
-              .contains("Inconsistency of field data structures across documents for field [f]"));
+                  .contains("Inconsistency of field data structures across documents for field [f]")
+              || exc.getMessage()
+                  .contains(
+                      "vector's dimensions must be <= [" + getVectorsMaxDimensions("f") + "]"));
       w.flush();
 
       Document doc4 = new Document();