diff --git a/.changes/cli.js-node-shim.md b/.changes/cli.js-node-shim.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fd230dae6ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/cli.js-node-shim.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"cli.js": patch
+---
+
+Fix crash when nodejs binary has the version in its name, for example `node18`
diff --git a/tooling/cli/node/tauri.js b/tooling/cli/node/tauri.js
index e934c2ef1d3..4503db9a965 100755
--- a/tooling/cli/node/tauri.js
+++ b/tooling/cli/node/tauri.js
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ let binName
 
 // Even if started by a package manager, the binary will be NodeJS.
 // Some distribution still use "nodejs" as the binary name.
-if (binStem === 'node' || binStem === 'nodejs') {
+if (binStem.match(/(nodejs|node)([1-9]*)*$/g)) {
   const managerStem = process.env.npm_execpath
     ? path.parse(process.env.npm_execpath).name.toLowerCase()
     : null