diff --git a/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core/src/com/oracle/svm/core/option/OptionOrigin.java b/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core/src/com/oracle/svm/core/option/OptionOrigin.java
index 9dcb2627f8ff..a82237bed85d 100644
--- a/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core/src/com/oracle/svm/core/option/OptionOrigin.java
+++ b/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core/src/com/oracle/svm/core/option/OptionOrigin.java
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ public static OptionOrigin from(String origin) {
             }
             throw VMError.shouldNotReachHere("Unsupported OptionOrigin: " + origin);
         }
+        if (originURI.getScheme() == null) {
+            /* @argument files use path as origin */
+            return commandLineOptionOriginSingleton;
+        }
         switch (originURI.getScheme()) {
             case "jar":
                 return new JarOptionOrigin(originURI);
diff --git a/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.driver/src/com/oracle/svm/driver/APIOptionHandler.java b/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.driver/src/com/oracle/svm/driver/APIOptionHandler.java
index 3f00c9b515a3..ab8ec348dd9b 100644
--- a/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.driver/src/com/oracle/svm/driver/APIOptionHandler.java
+++ b/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.driver/src/com/oracle/svm/driver/APIOptionHandler.java
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 import com.oracle.svm.core.option.APIOption.APIOptionKind;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.option.APIOptionGroup;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.option.HostedOptionKey;
+import com.oracle.svm.core.option.OptionOrigin;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.option.SubstrateOptionsParser;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.util.VMError;
 import com.oracle.svm.driver.NativeImage.ArgumentQueue;
@@ -295,7 +296,7 @@ boolean consume(ArgumentQueue args) {
     String translateOption(ArgumentQueue argQueue) {
         OptionInfo option = null;
         String[] optionNameAndOptionValue = null;
-        String argumentOrigin = argQueue.argumentOrigin;
+        OptionOrigin argumentOrigin = OptionOrigin.from(argQueue.argumentOrigin);
         found: for (OptionInfo optionInfo : apiOptions.values()) {
             for (String variant : optionInfo.variants) {
                 String optionName;