diff --git a/test/integration/functional_test.go b/test/integration/functional_test.go
index 5e9afb67a1..b0135ceeb7 100644
--- a/test/integration/functional_test.go
+++ b/test/integration/functional_test.go
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ func validateCacheCmd(ctx context.Context, t *testing.T, profile string) {
 
 	t.Run("cache", func(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Run("add_remote", func(t *testing.T) {
-			for _, img := range []string{"k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1", "k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.3", "k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.4.1"} {
+			for _, img := range []string{"k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1", "k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.3", "k8s.gcr.io/pause:latest"} {
 				rr, err := Run(t, exec.CommandContext(ctx, Target(), "-p", profile, "cache", "add", img))
 				if err != nil {
 					t.Errorf("failed to 'cache add' remote image %q. args %q err %v", img, rr.Command(), err)
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ func validateCacheCmd(ctx context.Context, t *testing.T, profile string) {
 		})
 
 		t.Run("cache_reload", func(t *testing.T) { // deleting image inside minikube node manually and expecting reload to bring it back
-			img := "k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.4.1"
+			img := "k8s.gcr.io/pause:latest"
 			// deleting image inside minikube node manually
 
 			var binary string
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ func validateCacheCmd(ctx context.Context, t *testing.T, profile string) {
 
 		// delete will clean up the cached images since they are global and all other tests will load it for no reason
 		t.Run("delete", func(t *testing.T) {
-			for _, img := range []string{"k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1", "k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.4.1"} {
+			for _, img := range []string{"k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1", "k8s.gcr.io/pause:latest"} {
 				rr, err := Run(t, exec.CommandContext(ctx, Target(), "cache", "delete", img))
 				if err != nil {
 					t.Errorf("failed to delete %s from cache. args %q: %v", img, rr.Command(), err)