diff --git a/rpmlint/pkg.py b/rpmlint/pkg.py
index ae44c77f5..08e271be2 100644
--- a/rpmlint/pkg.py
+++ b/rpmlint/pkg.py
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ def _extract_rpm(self, dirname, verbose):
                         subprocess.check_output('rpm2archive - | tar -xz && chmod -R +rX .', shell=True, env=ENGLISH_ENVIRONMENT,
                                                 stderr=stderr, stdin=rpm_data)
                 else:
-                    command_str = f'rpm2cpio {quote(str(filename))} | cpio -id ; chmod -R +rX .'
+                    command_str = f'rpm2cpio {quote(str(filename))} | cpio -id && chmod -R +rX .'
                     subprocess.check_output(command_str, shell=True, env=ENGLISH_ENVIRONMENT, stderr=stderr)
             self.extracted = True
         return dirname
diff --git a/test/test_lint.py b/test/test_lint.py
index 202245cd0..d039acd5e 100644
--- a/test/test_lint.py
+++ b/test/test_lint.py
@@ -338,6 +338,9 @@ def test_header_information(capsys):
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('configs', [list(Path('configs').glob('*/*.toml'))])
 @pytest.mark.no_cover
 def test_run_full_rpm(capsys, packages, configs):
+    # the package cannot be extracted using rpm2cpio because it contains a directory without 'x' permission
+    packages.remove(Path('test/binary/python311-pytest-xprocess-0.23.0-2.4.noarch.rpm'))
+
     number_of_pkgs = len(packages)
     additional_options = {
         'rpmfile': packages,
diff --git a/test/test_pkg.py b/test/test_pkg.py
index 805eb42b6..415c80b39 100644
--- a/test/test_pkg.py
+++ b/test/test_pkg.py
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+import os
+import subprocess
+import unittest.mock as mock
+
 import pytest
 import rpm
 from rpmlint.pkg import parse_deps, rangeCompare
@@ -25,5 +29,21 @@ def test_range_compare():
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('package', ['binary/python311-pytest-xprocess'])
-def test_extract(package, tmp_path):
-    get_tested_package(package, tmp_path)
+def test_extract_fail(package, tmp_path):
+    """
+    Check that rpm2cpio fails to extract this package because it has no
+    permissions to some files.
+    """
+
+    # Root can extract the package, so nothing to check
+    if os.getuid() == 0:
+        return
+
+    with mock.patch('shutil.which') as mock_which:
+        mock_which.return_value = None
+        # the package cannot be extracted using rpm2cpio because it contains a directory without 'x' permission
+        with pytest.raises(subprocess.CalledProcessError) as exc:
+            get_tested_package(package, tmp_path)
+        mock_which.assert_called_once_with('rpm2archive')
+        # check that it was rpm2cpio what failed
+        assert exc.match(r'rpm2cpio .*')