diff --git a/btrfsprogs.changes b/btrfsprogs.changes
index ec53606..74141a1 100644
--- a/btrfsprogs.changes
+++ b/btrfsprogs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Dec  7 11:03:37 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Escape the usage of %{VERSION} when calling out to rpm.
+  RPM 4.14 has %{VERSION} defined as 'the main packages version'.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Nov 22 14:41:57 UTC 2017 - jeffm@suse.com
 
diff --git a/btrfsprogs.spec b/btrfsprogs.spec
index 57f21e7..0a36fe2 100644
--- a/btrfsprogs.spec
+++ b/btrfsprogs.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 
 %define udev_with_btrfs_builtin 190
-%define udev_version %(rpm -q --queryformat %{VERSION} udev)
+%define udev_version %(rpm -q --queryformat %%{VERSION} udev)
 %define package_udev_rules %{udev_version} >= %{udev_with_btrfs_builtin}
 
 # enable building of btrfsprogs-static