diff --git a/crates/cast/src/cmd/logs.rs b/crates/cast/src/cmd/logs.rs
index b0da80fd44788..2508e86efb9e3 100644
--- a/crates/cast/src/cmd/logs.rs
+++ b/crates/cast/src/cmd/logs.rs
@@ -131,7 +131,13 @@ fn build_filter(
 
 /// Creates a [Filter] from the given event signature and arguments.
 fn build_filter_event_sig(event: Event, args: Vec<String>) -> Result<Filter, eyre::Error> {
+    let arg_count = args.len();
     let args = args.iter().map(|arg| arg.as_str()).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    eyre::ensure!(
+        arg_count <= event.inputs.len(),
+        "too many indexed arguments supplied: got {arg_count}, expected at most {}",
+        event.inputs.len()
+    );
 
     // Match the args to indexed inputs. Enumerate so that the ordering can be restored
     // when merging the inputs with arguments and without arguments
@@ -321,6 +327,18 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(filter, expected)
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_build_filter_sig_with_extra_arguments_errors() {
+        let result = build_filter(
+            None,
+            None,
+            None,
+            Some(TRANSFER_SIG.to_string()),
+            vec![String::new(), ADDRESS.to_string(), ADDRESS.to_string(), ADDRESS.to_string()],
+        );
+        assert!(result.is_err());
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_build_filter_with_topics() {
         let expected = Filter {