diff --git a/turbo/jsonrpc/bor_snapshot.go b/turbo/jsonrpc/bor_snapshot.go
index 2ddc6d9f5ac..8cd855d9040 100644
--- a/turbo/jsonrpc/bor_snapshot.go
+++ b/turbo/jsonrpc/bor_snapshot.go
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ func (s *Snapshot) apply(headers []*types.Header) (*Snapshot, error) {
 			if err := bor.ValidateHeaderExtraLength(header.Extra); err != nil {
 				return nil, err
 			}
-			validatorBytes := header.Extra[extraVanity : len(header.Extra)-extraSeal]
+			validatorBytes := bor.GetValidatorBytes(header, s.config)
 
 			// get validators from headers and use that for new validator set
 			newVals, _ := valset.ParseValidators(validatorBytes)