diff --git a/inference-engine/src/vpu/graph_transformer/src/frontend/ShaveElfMetadataParser.cpp b/inference-engine/src/vpu/graph_transformer/src/frontend/ShaveElfMetadataParser.cpp
index d8c14661f06..ba09f37fa3f 100644
--- a/inference-engine/src/vpu/graph_transformer/src/frontend/ShaveElfMetadataParser.cpp
+++ b/inference-engine/src/vpu/graph_transformer/src/frontend/ShaveElfMetadataParser.cpp
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ uint32_t md_parser_t::evaluate_expr(const md_expr_t *expression,
     case md_type_op_xor:
     case md_type_op_shl:
     case md_type_op_lshr:
+      assert(values.size() >= 2);
       uint32_t rhs = values.rbegin()[0];
       uint32_t lhs = values.rbegin()[1];
       values.pop_back();