diff --git a/core/server/data/importer/index.js b/core/server/data/importer/index.js
index 364fab97d1..9413333150 100644
--- a/core/server/data/importer/index.js
+++ b/core/server/data/importer/index.js
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ _.extend(ImportManager.prototype, {
         const tmpDir = path.join(os.tmpdir(), uuid.v4());
         this.fileToDelete = tmpDir;
 
-        return extract(filePath, {dir: tmpDir}).then(function () {
+        return extract(filePath, tmpDir).then(function () {
             return tmpDir;
         });
     },
diff --git a/test/unit/data/importer/index_spec.js b/test/unit/data/importer/index_spec.js
index 1f68392ce8..7294620f99 100644
--- a/test/unit/data/importer/index_spec.js
+++ b/test/unit/data/importer/index_spec.js
@@ -203,6 +203,21 @@ describe('Importer', function () {
                     should.not.exist(ImportManager.getBaseDirectory(testDir));
                 });
             });
+
+            describe('Zip behaviour', function () {
+                it('can call extract and error correctly', function () {
+                    return ImportManager
+                        // Deliberately pass something that can't be extracted just to check this method signature is working
+                        .extractZip('test/utils/fixtures/import/zips/zip-with-base-dir')
+                        .then((res) => {
+                            throw new Error('should have failed');
+                        })
+                        .catch((err) => {
+                            err.message.should.match(/EISDIR/);
+                            err.code.should.match(/EISDIR/);
+                        });
+                });
+            });
         });
 
         // Step 2 of importing is preProcess