diff --git a/lib/config/cli.ts b/lib/config/cli.ts
index e6945c35dece433eabe1fea2b5cb60076f8d773d..e7e64a036a4169688d68744322a242bb039c6269 100644
--- a/lib/config/cli.ts
+++ b/lib/config/cli.ts
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ export function getConfig(input: string[]): GlobalConfig {
 
   let program = new Command()
     .storeOptionsAsProperties(false)
+    .passCommandToAction(false)
     .arguments('[repositories...]');
 
   options.forEach((option) => {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1280447d93bdec8ecb5ecb7b7441ab6e27b6ba70..4451aa9582136dd4d5c921a1c92af1727be24c60 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
     "chalk": "4.1.0",
     "changelog-filename-regex": "2.0.1",
     "clean-git-ref": "2.0.1",
-    "commander": "7.0.0",
+    "commander": "6.2.1",
     "conventional-commits-detector": "1.0.3",
     "crypto-random-string": "3.3.0",
     "deepmerge": "4.2.2",
diff --git a/tools/package.json b/tools/package.json
index 21c7cf8a2643de2be2997226db9ab765ea6ec6e5..de83be1a4d197352c67af5da56467ae9d3720f40 100644
--- a/tools/package.json
+++ b/tools/package.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     "@actions/core": "1.2.6",
     "@jest/reporters": "26.6.2",
     "@jest/test-result": "26.6.2",
-    "commander": "7.0.0",
+    "commander": "6.2.1",
     "eslint": "7.12.1",
     "fs-extra": "9.1.0",
     "got": "11.8.1",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index b7d03c267b0429d78982e36911300cfdc777d570..a0332ac33d9c44d730738527afb44c9f9bd93afe 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -3663,10 +3663,10 @@ combined-stream@^1.0.6, combined-stream@~1.0.6:
   dependencies:
     delayed-stream "~1.0.0"
 
-commander@7.0.0:
-  version "7.0.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/commander/-/commander-7.0.0.tgz#3e2bbfd8bb6724760980988fb5b22b7ee6b71ab2"
-  integrity sha512-ovx/7NkTrnPuIV8sqk/GjUIIM1+iUQeqA3ye2VNpq9sVoiZsooObWlQy+OPWGI17GDaEoybuAGJm6U8yC077BA==
+commander@6.2.1:
+  version "6.2.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/commander/-/commander-6.2.1.tgz#0792eb682dfbc325999bb2b84fddddba110ac73c"
+  integrity sha512-U7VdrJFnJgo4xjrHpTzu0yrHPGImdsmD95ZlgYSEajAn2JKzDhDTPG9kBTefmObL2w/ngeZnilk+OV9CG3d7UA==
 
 commander@^4.0.1:
   version "4.1.1"