diff --git a/satellite/metabase/common.go b/satellite/metabase/common.go
index 295e873ac..30c8edcf9 100644
--- a/satellite/metabase/common.go
+++ b/satellite/metabase/common.go
@@ -371,14 +371,14 @@ const MaxVersion = Version(math.MaxInt32)
 // TODO(ver): this is not final approach to version encoding. It's simplified
 // version for internal testing purposes. Will be changed in future.
 func (v Version) Encode() []byte {
-	var bytes [8]byte
+	var bytes [16]byte
 	binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(bytes[:], uint64(v))
 	return bytes[:]
 }
 
 // VersionFromBytes decodes version from bytes.
 func VersionFromBytes(bytes []byte) (Version, error) {
-	if len(bytes) != 8 {
+	if len(bytes) != 16 {
 		return Version(0), ErrInvalidRequest.New("invalid version")
 	}
 	return Version(binary.BigEndian.Uint64(bytes)), nil
diff --git a/satellite/metainfo/endpoint_object_test.go b/satellite/metainfo/endpoint_object_test.go
index 5ace19e20..fee4e9278 100644
--- a/satellite/metainfo/endpoint_object_test.go
+++ b/satellite/metainfo/endpoint_object_test.go
@@ -83,6 +83,18 @@ func TestEndpoint_Object_No_StorageNodes(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Run("get objects", func(t *testing.T) {
 			defer ctx.Check(deleteBucket)
 
+			// check version validation
+			_, err := satellite.Metainfo.Endpoint.GetObject(ctx, &pb.GetObjectRequest{
+				Header: &pb.RequestHeader{
+					ApiKey: apiKey.SerializeRaw(),
+				},
+				Bucket:             []byte("test-bucket"),
+				EncryptedObjectKey: []byte("test-object"),
+				ObjectVersion:      []byte("broken-version"),
+			})
+			require.Error(t, err)
+			require.True(t, errs2.IsRPC(err, rpcstatus.InvalidArgument))
+
 			files := make([]string, 10)
 			data := testrand.Bytes(1 * memory.KiB)
 			for i := 0; i < len(files); i++ {
diff --git a/satellite/metainfo/validation.go b/satellite/metainfo/validation.go
index 38b148f80..3a0762518 100644
--- a/satellite/metainfo/validation.go
+++ b/satellite/metainfo/validation.go
@@ -304,8 +304,8 @@ func validateBucketLabel(label []byte) error {
 }
 
 func validateObjectVersion(version []byte) error {
-	if len(version) != 0 && len(version) != 8 {
-		return Error.New("invalid object version")
+	if len(version) != 0 && len(version) != 16 {
+		return Error.New("invalid object version length")
 	}
 	return nil
 }