diff --git a/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/importing/ImportingUtilitiesTests.java b/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/importing/ImportingUtilitiesTests.java
index b577d3aa4..de30f8310 100644
--- a/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/importing/ImportingUtilitiesTests.java
+++ b/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/importing/ImportingUtilitiesTests.java
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 
 package com.google.refine.tests.importing;
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
 
 import org.testng.Assert;
@@ -14,6 +16,7 @@ import com.google.refine.importers.tree.TreeImportingParserBase;
 import com.google.refine.importing.ImportingJob;
 import com.google.refine.importing.ImportingUtilities;
 import com.google.refine.tests.importers.ImporterTest;
+import com.google.refine.tests.util.TestUtils;
 import com.google.refine.util.JSONUtilities;
 import com.google.refine.util.ParsingUtilities;
 
@@ -37,9 +40,10 @@ public class ImportingUtilitiesTests extends ImporterTest {
     }
     
     @Test(expectedExceptions=IllegalArgumentException.class)
-    public void testZipSlip() {
+    public void testZipSlip() throws IOException {
+    	File tempDir = TestUtils.createTempDirectory("openrefine-zip-slip-test");
         // For CVE-2018-19859, issue #1840
-    	ImportingUtilities.allocateFile(workspaceDir, "../../script.sh");
+    	ImportingUtilities.allocateFile(tempDir, "../../tmp/script.sh");
     }
     
     private ObjectNode getNestedOptions(ImportingJob job, TreeImportingParserBase parser) {