diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native/S3xLoginHelper.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native/S3xLoginHelper.java
index 97ece37012..862ce6bec2 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native/S3xLoginHelper.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native/S3xLoginHelper.java
@@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ private S3xLoginHelper() {
       "The Filesystem URI contains login details."
       +" This is insecure and may be unsupported in future.";
 
+  public static final String PLUS_WARNING =
+      "Secret key contains a special character that should be URL encoded! " +
+          "Attempting to resolve...";
+
+  public static final String PLUS_UNENCODED = "+";
+  public static final String PLUS_ENCODED = "%2B";
+
   /**
    * Build the filesystem URI. This can include stripping down of part
    * of the URI.
@@ -112,7 +119,13 @@ public static Login extractLoginDetails(URI name) {
       int loginSplit = login.indexOf(':');
       if (loginSplit > 0) {
         String user = login.substring(0, loginSplit);
-        String password = URLDecoder.decode(login.substring(loginSplit + 1),
+        String encodedPassword = login.substring(loginSplit + 1);
+        if (encodedPassword.contains(PLUS_UNENCODED)) {
+          LOG.warn(PLUS_WARNING);
+          encodedPassword = encodedPassword.replaceAll("\\" + PLUS_UNENCODED,
+              PLUS_ENCODED);
+        }
+        String password = URLDecoder.decode(encodedPassword,
             "UTF-8");
         return new Login(user, password);
       } else if (loginSplit == 0) {
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native/TestS3xLoginHelper.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native/TestS3xLoginHelper.java
index bd2ac1e601..3761cb7611 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native/TestS3xLoginHelper.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native/TestS3xLoginHelper.java
@@ -32,9 +32,13 @@ public class TestS3xLoginHelper extends Assert {
   public static final String BUCKET = "s3a://bucket";
   private static final URI ENDPOINT = uri(BUCKET);
   public static final String S = "%2f";
+  public static final String P = "%2b";
+  public static final String P_RAW = "+";
   public static final String USER = "user";
   public static final String PASS = "pass";
   public static final String PASLASHSLASH = "pa" + S + S;
+  public static final String PAPLUS = "pa" + P;
+  public static final String PAPLUS_RAW = "pa" + P_RAW;
 
   public static final URI WITH_USER_AND_PASS = uri("s3a://user:pass@bucket");
   public static final Path PATH_WITH_LOGIN =
@@ -42,6 +46,10 @@ public class TestS3xLoginHelper extends Assert {
 
   public static final URI WITH_SLASH_IN_PASS = uri(
       "s3a://user:" + PASLASHSLASH + "@bucket");
+  public static final URI WITH_PLUS_IN_PASS = uri(
+      "s3a://user:" + PAPLUS + "@bucket");
+  public static final URI WITH_PLUS_RAW_IN_PASS = uri(
+      "s3a://user:" + PAPLUS_RAW + "@bucket");
   public static final URI USER_NO_PASS = uri("s3a://user@bucket");
   public static final URI WITH_USER_AND_COLON = uri("s3a://user:@bucket");
   public static final URI NO_USER = uri("s3a://:pass@bucket");
@@ -116,6 +124,16 @@ public void testLoginWithSlashInPass() throws Throwable {
     assertMatchesLogin(USER, "pa//", WITH_SLASH_IN_PASS);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testLoginWithPlusInPass() throws Throwable {
+    assertMatchesLogin(USER, "pa+", WITH_PLUS_IN_PASS);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testLoginWithPlusRawInPass() throws Throwable {
+    assertMatchesLogin(USER, "pa+", WITH_PLUS_RAW_IN_PASS);
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testLoginWithUser() throws Throwable {
     assertMatchesLogin(USER, "", USER_NO_PASS);
@@ -151,6 +169,16 @@ public void testFsUriWithSlashInPass() throws Throwable {
     assertMatchesEndpoint(WITH_SLASH_IN_PASS);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testFsUriWithPlusInPass() throws Throwable {
+    assertMatchesEndpoint(WITH_PLUS_IN_PASS);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testFsUriWithPlusRawInPass() throws Throwable {
+    assertMatchesEndpoint(WITH_PLUS_RAW_IN_PASS);
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testFsUriWithUser() throws Throwable {
     assertMatchesEndpoint(USER_NO_PASS);