diff --git a/share/spack/gitlab/cloud_pipelines/.gitlab-ci.yml b/share/spack/gitlab/cloud_pipelines/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 04b9fa07449..77f930fc30e 100644
--- a/share/spack/gitlab/cloud_pipelines/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/share/spack/gitlab/cloud_pipelines/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ protected-publish:
     - spack buildcache update-index --keys "${SPACK_COPY_BUILDCACHE}"
   id_tokens:
     GITLAB_OIDC_TOKEN:
-      aud: "${OIDC_TOKEN_AUDIENCE}"
+      aud: "protected_binary_mirror"
 
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 # TEMPLATE FOR ADDING ANOTHER PIPELINE