diff --git a/packages/profiling-node/src/integration.ts b/packages/profiling-node/src/integration.ts
index 17ce6f702639..9b4fd1601420 100644
--- a/packages/profiling-node/src/integration.ts
+++ b/packages/profiling-node/src/integration.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import {
 import type { NodeClient, NodeOptions } from '@sentry/node';
 import { CpuProfilerBindings, ProfileFormat, type RawThreadCpuProfile } from '@sentry-internal/node-cpu-profiler';
 import { DEBUG_BUILD } from './debug-build';
-import { NODE_MAJOR, NODE_VERSION } from './nodeVersion';
+import { NODE_MAJOR } from './nodeVersion';
 import { MAX_PROFILE_DURATION_MS, maybeProfileSpan, stopSpanProfile } from './spanProfileUtils';
 import {
   addProfilesToEnvelope,
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ export const _nodeProfilingIntegration = ((): ProfilingIntegration<NodeClient> =
     consoleSandbox(() => {
       // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
       console.warn(
-        `[Sentry Profiling] You are using a Node.js version that does not have prebuilt binaries (${NODE_VERSION}).`,
+        `[Sentry Profiling] You are using a Node.js version that does not have prebuilt binaries (${NODE_MAJOR}).`,
         'The @sentry/profiling-node package only has prebuilt support for the following LTS versions of Node.js: 16, 18, 20, 22, 24.',
         'To use the @sentry/profiling-node package with this version of Node.js, you will need to compile the native addon from source.',
         'See: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/tree/develop/packages/profiling-node#building-the-package-from-source',
diff --git a/packages/profiling-node/test/integration.test.ts b/packages/profiling-node/test/integration.test.ts
index a0ff14d4602e..41f195b8b3c6 100644
--- a/packages/profiling-node/test/integration.test.ts
+++ b/packages/profiling-node/test/integration.test.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import type { NodeClientOptions } from '@sentry/node/build/types/types';
 import { CpuProfilerBindings } from '@sentry-internal/node-cpu-profiler';
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
 import { _nodeProfilingIntegration } from '../src/integration';
+import { NODE_VERSION } from '../src/nodeVersion';
 
 function makeLegacySpanProfilingClient(): [Sentry.NodeClient, Transport] {
   const integration = _nodeProfilingIntegration();
@@ -984,6 +985,16 @@ describe('ProfilingIntegration', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('NODE_VERSION', () => {
+  it('is a plain object without a custom toString', () => {
+    // NODE_VERSION is a SemVer object from parseSemver — it has no custom toString().
+    // Code should never interpolate it directly in a template literal.
+    // Use process.versions.node or format the components manually instead.
+    expect(`${NODE_VERSION}`).toBe('[object Object]');
+    expect(`${NODE_VERSION.major}.${NODE_VERSION.minor}.${NODE_VERSION.patch}`).toMatch(/^\d+\.\d+\.\d+$/);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('Legacy vs Current API compat', () => {
   describe('legacy', () => {
     describe('span profiling', () => {