diff --git a/src/opnsense/scripts/suricata/queryAlertLog.py b/src/opnsense/scripts/suricata/queryAlertLog.py
index 8baa1aad2a6..2bdf617490d 100755
--- a/src/opnsense/scripts/suricata/queryAlertLog.py
+++ b/src/opnsense/scripts/suricata/queryAlertLog.py
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 import sys
 import os.path
 import re
-import sre_constants
 import shlex
 import ujson
 sys.path.insert(0, "/usr/local/opnsense/site-python")
@@ -73,7 +72,7 @@
             filter_regexp = filter_regexp.lower()
             try:
                 data_filters_comp[filterField] = re.compile(filter_regexp)
-            except sre_constants.error:
+            except re.error:
                 # remove illegal expression
                 # del data_filters[filterField]
                 data_filters_comp[filterField] = re.compile('.*')
diff --git a/src/opnsense/scripts/syslog/queryLog.py b/src/opnsense/scripts/syslog/queryLog.py
index 46f9e639269..ae4fcc33f09 100755
--- a/src/opnsense/scripts/syslog/queryLog.py
+++ b/src/opnsense/scripts/syslog/queryLog.py
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 import sys
 import os.path
 import re
-import sre_constants
 import ujson
 import datetime
 import glob
@@ -82,7 +81,7 @@
                 # no wildcard operator, assume partial match
                 filter = ".*%s.*" % filter
             filter_regexp = re.compile(filter)
-        except sre_constants.error:
+        except re.error:
             # remove illegal expression
             filter_regexp = re.compile('.*')