diff --git a/packages/jest-config/src/normalize.ts b/packages/jest-config/src/normalize.ts
index 7ca05620bf06..bb695cb895ad 100644
--- a/packages/jest-config/src/normalize.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-config/src/normalize.ts
@@ -752,7 +752,9 @@ export default async function normalize(
               // for the future resolution.
               const globMatches =
                 typeof project === 'string'
-                  ? globSync([project.replaceAll('\\', '/')])
+                  ? globSync([project.replaceAll('\\', '/')], {
+                      expandDirectories: false,
+                    })
                   : [];
               const projectEntry =
                 globMatches.length > 0 ? globMatches : project;
diff --git a/packages/jest-reporters/src/CoverageReporter.ts b/packages/jest-reporters/src/CoverageReporter.ts
index 264c650aa2a7..1408f4761820 100644
--- a/packages/jest-reporters/src/CoverageReporter.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-reporters/src/CoverageReporter.ts
@@ -297,9 +297,10 @@ export default class CoverageReporter extends BaseReporter {
           // (rather than recalculating it for each covered file) we save a tonne
           // of execution time.
           if (filesByGlob[absoluteThresholdGroup] === undefined) {
-            filesByGlob[absoluteThresholdGroup] = globSync([
-              absoluteThresholdGroup.replaceAll('\\', '/'),
-            ]).map(filePath => path.resolve(filePath));
+            filesByGlob[absoluteThresholdGroup] = globSync(
+              [absoluteThresholdGroup.replaceAll('\\', '/')],
+              {expandDirectories: false},
+            ).map(filePath => path.resolve(filePath));
           }
 
           if (filesByGlob[absoluteThresholdGroup].includes(file)) {
diff --git a/packages/jest-runtime/src/helpers.ts b/packages/jest-runtime/src/helpers.ts
index a95bc43f50ee..a34468f87558 100644
--- a/packages/jest-runtime/src/helpers.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-runtime/src/helpers.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ export const findSiblingsWithFileExtension = (
     try {
       const slashedDirname = slash(dirname);
 
-      const matches = globSync([`${pathToModule}.*`.replaceAll('\\', '/')])
+      const matches = globSync([`${pathToModule}.*`.replaceAll('\\', '/')], {
+        expandDirectories: false,
+      })
         .map(match => slash(match))
         .map(match => {
           const relativePath = path.posix.relative(slashedDirname, match);