diff --git a/crates/turborepo-lib/src/shim/local_turbo_state.rs b/crates/turborepo-lib/src/shim/local_turbo_state.rs
index 9f972c51a4975..945b8e879ad54 100644
--- a/crates/turborepo-lib/src/shim/local_turbo_state.rs
+++ b/crates/turborepo-lib/src/shim/local_turbo_state.rs
@@ -185,37 +185,39 @@ impl Default for YarnRc {
 }
 
 pub fn turbo_version_has_shim(version: &str) -> bool {
-    let version = Version::parse(version).unwrap();
-    // only need to check major and minor (this will include canaries)
-    if version.major == 1 {
-        return version.minor >= 7;
+    if let Ok(version) = Version::parse(version) {
+        // only need to check major and minor (this will include canaries)
+        if version.major == 1 {
+            return version.minor >= 7;
+        }
+        version.major > 1
+    } else {
+        // In the case that we don't get passed a valid semver we should avoid a panic.
+        // We shouldn't hit this we introduce back infering package version from schema
+        // or package.json.
+        true
     }
-
-    version.major > 1
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
+    use test_case::test_case;
+
     use super::*;
 
-    #[test]
-    fn test_skip_infer_version_constraint() {
-        let canary = "1.7.0-canary.0";
-        let newer_canary = "1.7.0-canary.1";
-        let newer_minor_canary = "1.7.1-canary.6";
-        let release = "1.7.0";
-        let old = "1.6.3";
-        let old_canary = "1.6.2-canary.1";
-        let new = "1.8.0";
-        let new_major = "2.1.0";
-
-        assert!(turbo_version_has_shim(release));
-        assert!(turbo_version_has_shim(canary));
-        assert!(turbo_version_has_shim(newer_canary));
-        assert!(turbo_version_has_shim(newer_minor_canary));
-        assert!(turbo_version_has_shim(new));
-        assert!(turbo_version_has_shim(new_major));
-        assert!(!turbo_version_has_shim(old));
-        assert!(!turbo_version_has_shim(old_canary));
+    #[test_case("1.7.0-canary.0", true; "canary")]
+    #[test_case("1.7.0-canary.1", true; "newer_canary")]
+    #[test_case("1.7.1-canary.6", true; "newer_minor_canary")]
+    #[test_case("1.7.0", true; "release")]
+    #[test_case("1.6.3", false; "old")]
+    #[test_case("1.6.2-canary.1", false; "old_canary")]
+    #[test_case("1.8.0", true; "new")]
+    #[test_case("2.1.0", true; "new major")]
+    #[test_case("*", true; "star")]
+    #[test_case("2.0", true; "version 2 0")]
+    #[test_case("latest", true; "latest")]
+    #[test_case("canary", true; "canary tag")]
+    fn test_skip_infer_version_constraint(version: &str, expected: bool) {
+        assert_eq!(turbo_version_has_shim(version), expected);
     }
 }