diff --git a/third_party/ijar/ijar.cc b/third_party/ijar/ijar.cc
index 3bac6bd5364d61..4010c21132d78d 100644
--- a/third_party/ijar/ijar.cc
+++ b/third_party/ijar/ijar.cc
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ bool StripClass(u1 *&classdata_out, const u1 *classdata_in, size_t in_length);
 
 const char *CLASS_EXTENSION = ".class";
 const size_t CLASS_EXTENSION_LENGTH = strlen(CLASS_EXTENSION);
+const char *TRANSITIVE_PREFIX = "META-INF/TRANSITIVE/";
+const size_t TRANSITIVE_PREFIX_LENGTH = strlen(TRANSITIVE_PREFIX);
 const char *KOTLIN_BUILTINS_EXTENSION = ".kotlin_builtins";
 const size_t KOTLIN_BUILTINS_EXTENSION_LENGTH =
     strlen(KOTLIN_BUILTINS_EXTENSION);
@@ -133,6 +135,10 @@ bool JarStripperProcessor::Accept(const char *filename, const u4 /*attr*/) {
              CLASS_EXTENSION) != 0) {
     return false;
   }
+  if (StartsWith(filename, filename_len, TRANSITIVE_PREFIX,
+                 TRANSITIVE_PREFIX_LENGTH)) {
+    return false;
+  }
   return true;
 }
 
diff --git a/third_party/ijar/test/BUILD b/third_party/ijar/test/BUILD
index eb8d4aefc78f56..61bf7417123ad0 100644
--- a/third_party/ijar/test/BUILD
+++ b/third_party/ijar/test/BUILD
@@ -372,6 +372,31 @@ genrule(
     tools = [":GenJarWithManifestSections"],
 )
 
+java_binary(
+    name = "GenMetaInfTransitive",
+    testonly = 1,
+    srcs = ["GenMetaInfTransitive.java"],
+    main_class = "GenMetaInfTransitive",
+    deps = ["//third_party:guava"],
+)
+
+genrule(
+    name = "meta_inf_transitive",
+    testonly = 1,
+    outs = ["meta_inf_transitive.jar"],
+    cmd = "$(location :GenMetaInfTransitive) $@",
+    tools = [":GenMetaInfTransitive"],
+)
+
+genrule(
+    name = "meta_inf_transitive-interface",
+    testonly = 1,
+    srcs = [":meta_inf_transitive.jar"],
+    outs = ["meta_inf_transitive-interface.jar"],
+    cmd = "$(location //third_party/ijar) $< $@",
+    tools = ["//third_party/ijar"],
+)
+
 java_test(
     name = "IjarTests",
     size = "small",
@@ -402,6 +427,7 @@ java_test(
         ":kotlin_module-interface.jar",
         ":liblocal_and_anonymous_lib.jar",
         ":local_and_anonymous-interface.jar",
+        ":meta_inf_transitive-interface",
         ":module_info-interface.jar",
         ":scala_tasty-interface.jar",
     ],
diff --git a/third_party/ijar/test/GenMetaInfTransitive.java b/third_party/ijar/test/GenMetaInfTransitive.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..60402b623bdfe9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/ijar/test/GenMetaInfTransitive.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+// Copyright 2024 The Bazel Authors. All rights reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+
+import com.google.common.io.ByteStreams;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.jar.JarOutputStream;
+import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
+
+/**
+ * A generator for a jar file containing a META-INF/TRANSITIVE/ entries, and one real class file.
+ */
+public final class GenMetaInfTransitive {
+  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
+    try (JarOutputStream jos = new JarOutputStream(Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get(args[0])))) {
+      addEntry(jos, "META-INF/TRANSITIVE/java/lang/String.class");
+      ByteStreams.copy(String.class.getResourceAsStream("/java/lang/String.class"), jos);
+
+      addEntry(jos, "java/lang/String.class");
+      ByteStreams.copy(String.class.getResourceAsStream("/java/lang/String.class"), jos);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private static void addEntry(JarOutputStream jos, String name) throws IOException {
+    ZipEntry ze = new ZipEntry(name);
+    ze.setTime(0);
+    jos.putNextEntry(ze);
+  }
+
+  private GenMetaInfTransitive() {}
+}
diff --git a/third_party/ijar/test/IjarTests.java b/third_party/ijar/test/IjarTests.java
index d2df340abd8625..719bea294f4148 100644
--- a/third_party/ijar/test/IjarTests.java
+++ b/third_party/ijar/test/IjarTests.java
@@ -473,6 +473,12 @@ public void testNoStripIdempotence() throws Exception {
     assertThat(original).isEqualTo(stripped);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void metaInfTtransitive() throws Exception {
+    Map<String, byte[]> lib = readJar("third_party/ijar/test/meta_inf_transitive-interface.jar");
+    assertThat(lib.keySet()).containsExactly("java/lang/String.class");
+  }
+
   private static void assertNonManifestFilesBitIdentical(JarFile original, JarFile stripped)
       throws IOException {
     // Make sure that all other files came across bitwise equal