diff --git a/airflow-core/src/airflow/serialization/serialized_objects.py b/airflow-core/src/airflow/serialization/serialized_objects.py
index 54bc3389c64ce..ef4853c73e811 100644
--- a/airflow-core/src/airflow/serialization/serialized_objects.py
+++ b/airflow-core/src/airflow/serialization/serialized_objects.py
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ def serialize(
                 cls.serialize(
                     {
                         "exc_cls_name": var.__class__.__name__,
-                        "args": [var.args],
+                        "args": list(var.args),
                         "kwargs": {},
                     },
                     strict=strict,
diff --git a/airflow-core/tests/unit/serialization/test_serialized_objects.py b/airflow-core/tests/unit/serialization/test_serialized_objects.py
index 8495100cc47fc..2b229f73d6865 100644
--- a/airflow-core/tests/unit/serialization/test_serialized_objects.py
+++ b/airflow-core/tests/unit/serialization/test_serialized_objects.py
@@ -443,6 +443,21 @@ def __len__(self) -> int:
             DAT.AIRFLOW_EXC_SER,
             equal_exception,
         ),
+        (
+            KeyError("boom"),
+            DAT.BASE_EXC_SER,
+            lambda a, b: a.__class__ == b.__class__ and a.args == b.args,
+        ),
+        (
+            AttributeError("boom"),
+            DAT.BASE_EXC_SER,
+            lambda a, b: a.__class__ == b.__class__ and a.args == b.args,
+        ),
+        (
+            KeyError("a", "b"),
+            DAT.BASE_EXC_SER,
+            lambda a, b: a.__class__ == b.__class__ and a.args == b.args,
+        ),
         (
             DAG_WITH_TASKS,
             DAT.DAG,