diff --git a/tests/scripts/components-configuration-tls.sh b/tests/scripts/components-configuration-tls.sh
index 585ca48891..0dbc42f136 100644
--- a/tests/scripts/components-configuration-tls.sh
+++ b/tests/scripts/components-configuration-tls.sh
@@ -196,6 +196,52 @@ component_test_tls1_2_default_cbc_legacy_cbc_etm_cipher_only () {
     tests/ssl-opt.sh -f "TLS 1.2"
 }
 
+component_test_config_thread_legacy () {
+    msg "build: configs/config-thread.h"
+    cp configs/config-thread.h "$CONFIG_H"
+    # test-ref-configs works by overwriting mbedtls_config.h; this makes cmake
+    # want to re-generate generated files that depend on it, quite correctly.
+    # However this doesn't work as the generation script expects a specific
+    # format for mbedtls_config.h, which the other files don't follow. Also,
+    # cmake can't know this, but re-generation is actually not necessary as
+    # the generated files only depend on the list of available options, not
+    # whether they're on or off. So, disable cmake's (over-sensitive here)
+    # dependency resolution for generated files and just rely on them being
+    # present (thanks to pre_generate_files) by turning GEN_FILES off.
+    CC=$ASAN_CC cmake -D GEN_FILES=Off -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:String=Asan .
+    make
+
+    msg "test: configs/config-thread.h - unit tests"
+    make test
+
+    msg "test: configs/config-thread.h - ssl-opt.sh"
+    tests/ssl-opt.sh -f 'ECJPAKE.*nolog'
+}
+
+component_test_config_thread_psa () {
+    msg "build: configs/config-thread.h + USE_PSA_CRYPTO"
+    cp configs/config-thread.h "$CONFIG_H"
+    scripts/config.py set MBEDTLS_PSA_CRYPTO_C
+    scripts/config.py set MBEDTLS_USE_PSA_CRYPTO
+    # test-ref-configs works by overwriting mbedtls_config.h; this makes cmake
+    # want to re-generate generated files that depend on it, quite correctly.
+    # However this doesn't work as the generation script expects a specific
+    # format for mbedtls_config.h, which the other files don't follow. Also,
+    # cmake can't know this, but re-generation is actually not necessary as
+    # the generated files only depend on the list of available options, not
+    # whether they're on or off. So, disable cmake's (over-sensitive here)
+    # dependency resolution for generated files and just rely on them being
+    # present (thanks to pre_generate_files) by turning GEN_FILES off.
+    CC=$ASAN_CC cmake -D GEN_FILES=Off -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:String=Asan .
+    make
+
+    msg "test: configs/config-thread.h + USE_PSA_CRYPTO - unit tests"
+    make test
+
+    msg "test: configs/config-thread.h + USE_PSA_CRYPTO - ssl-opt.sh"
+    tests/ssl-opt.sh -f 'ECJPAKE.*nolog'
+}
+
 # We're not aware of any other (open source) implementation of EC J-PAKE in TLS
 # that we could use for interop testing. However, we now have sort of two
 # implementations ourselves: one using PSA, the other not. At least test that
diff --git a/tests/scripts/test-ref-configs.pl b/tests/scripts/test-ref-configs.pl
index dbe373c59c..269fb2130e 100755
--- a/tests/scripts/test-ref-configs.pl
+++ b/tests/scripts/test-ref-configs.pl
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@ my %configs = (
     },
     'config-tfm.h' => {
     },
-    'config-thread.h' => {
-        'opt' => '-f ECJPAKE.*nolog',
-    },
 );
 
 # If no config-name is provided, use all known configs.