diff --git a/client/CHANGELOG.md b/client/CHANGELOG.md
index 9c22196..bc78662 100644
--- a/client/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/client/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ The **patch** part changes is incremented if multiple releases happen the same m
 
 ### Fixed
 
+* evobackupctl: quote ARGS variable for options parsing.
+
 ### Security
 
 ## [24.04]
diff --git a/client/bin/evobackupctl b/client/bin/evobackupctl
index 286eb94..3399694 100644
--- a/client/bin/evobackupctl
+++ b/client/bin/evobackupctl
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ copy_template() {
 main() {
     # If no argument is provided, print help and exit
     # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-    if [ -z ${ARGS} ]; then
+    if [ -z "${ARGS}" ]; then
         show_help
         exit 0
     fi