diff --git a/apache-maven/src/bin/mvn.cmd b/apache-maven/src/bin/mvn.cmd
index 972c39eaf26c..affbe4318216 100644
--- a/apache-maven/src/bin/mvn.cmd
+++ b/apache-maven/src/bin/mvn.cmd
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
 @REM enable echoing my setting MAVEN_BATCH_ECHO to 'on'
 @if "%MAVEN_BATCH_ECHO%"=="on" echo %MAVEN_BATCH_ECHO%
 
+@REM Clear/define a variable for any options to be inserted via script
+@REM We want to avoid trying to parse the external MAVEN_OPTS variable
+SET INTERNAL_MAVEN_OPTS=
+
 @REM Execute a user defined script before this one
 if not "%MAVEN_SKIP_RC%"=="" goto skipRcPre
 @REM check for pre script, once with legacy .bat ending and once with .cmd ending
@@ -175,11 +179,12 @@ set CLASSWORLDS_LAUNCHER=org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher
 @REM MNG-8248
 "%JAVACMD%" --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED -version >nul 2>&1
 if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto skipEnableNativeAccess
-set "MAVEN_OPTS=--enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED %MAVEN_OPTS%"
+set "INTERNAL_MAVEN_OPTS=--enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED %INTERNAL_MAVEN_OPTS%"
 :skipEnableNativeAccess
 
 "%JAVACMD%" ^
   %JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_PROPS% ^
+  %INTERNAL_MAVEN_OPTS% ^
   %MAVEN_OPTS% ^
   %MAVEN_DEBUG_OPTS% ^
   -classpath %CLASSWORLDS_JAR% ^