Your best bet is to use an older version of the CLI.
The latest 2.x version is 2.38.3 which is linked to CLI version 1.9.x and node version “^8.10.0 || ^10.13.0” (source)
The latest 3.x version is 3.42.8 which is linked to CLI version 1.12.x and node version “^10.13.0 || ^12.10.0 || ^14.15.0” (source)
The latest 4.x version is 4.48.9 which is linked to CLI version 1.17.x and node version “^14.17.0 || ^16.13.0” (source)