diff --git a/scripts/commit-msg.py b/scripts/commit-msg.py
index 7de6dc3df..e743b34d3 100755
--- a/scripts/commit-msg.py
+++ b/scripts/commit-msg.py
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
 FAIL_C = "\033[91m"
 END_C = "\033[0m"
 
-JIRA_REGEX = "(SPII|PCRM|NEMS|KF|IGWAY|NRL|APM|APMSPII|SPY3|SPINECLI)\-(\d+)"  # Example match: SPII-12345
+JIRA_REGEX = "(SPII|PCRM|NEMS|KF|IGWAY|NRL|APM|APMSPII|SPY3|SPINECLI)\\-(\\d+)"  # Example match: SPII-12345
 FEATURE_REGEX = (
-    "feature\/\w+\-(\w+\-\d+)\-"  # Example match: feature/das-SPII-12345-foo
+    "feature\\/\\w+\\-(\\w+\\-\\d+)\\-"  # Example match: feature/das-SPII-12345-foo
 )
-OLD_FEATURE_REGEX = "feature\/\w+\-(\d+)\-"  # Example match: feature/das-12345-foo
+OLD_FEATURE_REGEX = "feature\\/\\w+\\-(\\d+)\\-"  # Example match: feature/das-12345-foo
 sys.stdin = open("/dev/tty")  # Ensure that input can be taken by hook
 MSG_FILE = sys.argv[1]  # commit-msg hook provides file name as first arg