diff --git a/apache-maven/src/assembly/component.xml b/apache-maven/src/assembly/component.xml
index 4d75c9a38ca8..5f55a310c8bd 100644
--- a/apache-maven/src/assembly/component.xml
+++ b/apache-maven/src/assembly/component.xml
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ under the License.
       <includes>
         <include>*.cmd</include>
         <include>*.conf</include>
+        <include>*.java</include>
       </includes>
       <lineEnding>dos</lineEnding>
     </fileSet>
diff --git a/apache-maven/src/assembly/maven/bin/JvmConfigParser.java b/apache-maven/src/assembly/maven/bin/JvmConfigParser.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1d6360aac94a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apache-maven/src/assembly/maven/bin/JvmConfigParser.java
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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 java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+/**
+ * Parses .mvn/jvm.config file for Windows batch scripts.
+ * This avoids the complexity of parsing special characters (pipes, quotes, etc.) in batch scripts.
+ *
+ * Usage: java JvmConfigParser.java <jvm.config-path> <maven-project-basedir>
+ *
+ * Outputs: Single line with space-separated quoted arguments (safe for batch scripts)
+ */
+public class JvmConfigParser {
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        if (args.length != 2) {
+            System.err.println("Usage: java JvmConfigParser.java <jvm.config-path> <maven-project-basedir>");
+            System.exit(1);
+        }
+
+        Path jvmConfigPath = Paths.get(args[0]);
+        String mavenProjectBasedir = args[1];
+
+        if (!Files.exists(jvmConfigPath)) {
+            // No jvm.config file - output nothing
+            return;
+        }
+
+        try (Stream<String> lines = Files.lines(jvmConfigPath, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) {
+            StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
+
+            lines.forEach(line -> {
+                // Remove comments
+                int commentIndex = line.indexOf('#');
+                if (commentIndex >= 0) {
+                    line = line.substring(0, commentIndex);
+                }
+
+                // Trim whitespace
+                line = line.trim();
+
+                // Skip empty lines
+                if (line.isEmpty()) {
+                    return;
+                }
+
+                // Replace MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR placeholders
+                line = line.replace("${MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR}", mavenProjectBasedir);
+                line = line.replace("$MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR", mavenProjectBasedir);
+
+                // Parse line into individual arguments (split on spaces, respecting quotes)
+                List<String> parsed = parseArguments(line);
+
+                // Append each argument quoted
+                for (String arg : parsed) {
+                    if (result.length() > 0) {
+                        result.append(' ');
+                    }
+                    result.append('"').append(arg).append('"');
+                }
+            });
+
+            System.out.print(result.toString());
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            System.err.println("Error reading jvm.config: " + e.getMessage());
+            System.exit(1);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Parse a line into individual arguments, respecting quoted strings.
+     * Quotes are stripped from the arguments.
+     */
+    private static List<String> parseArguments(String line) {
+        List<String> args = new ArrayList<>();
+        StringBuilder current = new StringBuilder();
+        boolean inQuotes = false;
+        boolean inSingleQuotes = false;
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < line.length(); i++) {
+            char c = line.charAt(i);
+
+            if (c == '"' && !inSingleQuotes) {
+                inQuotes = !inQuotes;
+                // Don't include the quote character itself
+            } else if (c == '\'' && !inQuotes) {
+                inSingleQuotes = !inSingleQuotes;
+                // Don't include the quote character itself
+            } else if (c == ' ' && !inQuotes && !inSingleQuotes) {
+                // Space outside quotes - end of argument
+                if (current.length() > 0) {
+                    args.add(current.toString());
+                    current.setLength(0);
+                }
+            } else {
+                current.append(c);
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Add last argument
+        if (current.length() > 0) {
+            args.add(current.toString());
+        }
+
+        return args;
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/apache-maven/src/assembly/maven/bin/mvn b/apache-maven/src/assembly/maven/bin/mvn
index 8559d47af557..7ec4b77cb982 100755
--- a/apache-maven/src/assembly/maven/bin/mvn
+++ b/apache-maven/src/assembly/maven/bin/mvn
@@ -168,28 +168,48 @@ find_file_argument_basedir() {
 # concatenates all lines of a file and replaces variables
 concat_lines() {
   if [ -f "$1" ]; then
-    # First convert all CR to LF using tr
+    # Convert CR to LF, remove empty lines and comments, perform variable substitution,
+    # and escape pipe symbols for eval
     tr '\r' '\n' < "$1" | \
     sed -e '/^$/d' -e 's/#.*$//' | \
-    # Replace LF with NUL for xargs
-    tr '\n' '\0' | \
-    # Split into words and process each argument
-    # Use -0 with NUL to avoid special behaviour on quotes
-    xargs -n 1 -0 | \
-    while read -r arg; do
-      # Replace variables first
-      arg=$(echo "$arg" | sed \
-        -e "s@\${MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR}@$MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR@g" \
-        -e "s@\$MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR@$MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR@g")
-
-      echo "$arg"
-    done | \
-    tr '\n' ' '
+    sed \
+      -e "s@\${MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR}@$MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR@g" \
+      -e "s@\$MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR@$MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR@g" | \
+    awk '
+    {
+      result = ""
+      in_quotes = 0
+      for (i = 1; i <= length($0); i++) {
+        char = substr($0, i, 1)
+        if (char == "\"") {
+          in_quotes = !in_quotes
+          result = result char
+        } else if (char == "|" && !in_quotes) {
+          # Escape unquoted pipes for eval
+          result = result "\\|"
+        } else {
+          result = result char
+        }
+      }
+      # Accumulate lines with space separator
+      if (NR > 1) printf " "
+      printf "%s", result
+    }
+    END { if (NR > 0) print "" }
+    '
   fi
 }
 
 MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR="`find_maven_basedir "$@"`"
-MAVEN_OPTS="$MAVEN_OPTS `concat_lines "$MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR/.mvn/jvm.config"`"
+# Read JVM config and append to MAVEN_OPTS, preserving special characters
+_jvm_config="`concat_lines "$MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR/.mvn/jvm.config"`"
+if [ -n "$_jvm_config" ]; then
+  if [ -n "$MAVEN_OPTS" ]; then
+    MAVEN_OPTS="$MAVEN_OPTS $_jvm_config"
+  else
+    MAVEN_OPTS="$_jvm_config"
+  fi
+fi
 LAUNCHER_JAR=`echo "$MAVEN_HOME"/boot/plexus-classworlds-*.jar`
 LAUNCHER_CLASS=org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher
 
@@ -239,6 +259,7 @@ handle_args() {
 handle_args "$@"
 MAVEN_MAIN_CLASS=${MAVEN_MAIN_CLASS:=org.apache.maven.cling.MavenCling}
 
+# Build command string for eval
 cmd="\"$JAVACMD\" \
   $MAVEN_OPTS \
   $MAVEN_DEBUG_OPTS \
@@ -251,13 +272,10 @@ cmd="\"$JAVACMD\" \
   \"-Dmaven.multiModuleProjectDirectory=$MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR\" \
   $LAUNCHER_CLASS \
   $MAVEN_ARGS"
+
 # Add remaining arguments with proper quoting
 for arg in "$@"; do
     cmd="$cmd \"$arg\""
 done
 
-# Debug: print the command that will be executed
-#echo "About to execute:"
-#echo "$cmd"
-
 eval exec "$cmd"
diff --git a/apache-maven/src/assembly/maven/bin/mvn.cmd b/apache-maven/src/assembly/maven/bin/mvn.cmd
index a3e8600df3d1..43c2be68c199 100644
--- a/apache-maven/src/assembly/maven/bin/mvn.cmd
+++ b/apache-maven/src/assembly/maven/bin/mvn.cmd
@@ -177,38 +177,33 @@ cd /d "%EXEC_DIR%"
 
 :endDetectBaseDir
 
+rem Initialize JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS to empty to avoid inheriting from environment
+set JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS=
+
 if not exist "%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR%\.mvn\jvm.config" goto endReadJvmConfig
 
-@setlocal EnableExtensions EnableDelayedExpansion
-set JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS=
-for /F "usebackq tokens=* delims=" %%a in ("%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR%\.mvn\jvm.config") do (
-    set "line=%%a"
-
-    rem Skip empty lines and full-line comments
-    echo !line! | findstr /b /r /c:"[ ]*#" >nul
-    if errorlevel 1 (
-        rem Handle end-of-line comments by taking everything before #
-        for /f "tokens=1* delims=#" %%i in ("!line!") do set "line=%%i"
-
-        rem Trim leading/trailing spaces while preserving spaces in quotes
-        set "trimmed=!line!"
-        for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%i in ("!trimmed!") do set "trimmed=%%i"
-        for /l %%i in (1,1,100) do if "!trimmed:~-1!"==" " set "trimmed=!trimmed:~0,-1!"
-
-        rem Replace MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR placeholders
-        set "trimmed=!trimmed:${MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR}=%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR%!"
-        set "trimmed=!trimmed:$MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR=%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR%!"
-
-        if not "!trimmed!"=="" (
-            if "!JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS!"=="" (
-                set "JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS=!trimmed!"
-            ) else (
-                set "JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS=!JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS! !trimmed!"
-            )
-        )
-    )
-)
-@endlocal & set JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS=%JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS%
+rem Use Java to parse jvm.config to avoid batch script parsing issues with special characters
+rem This handles pipes, quotes, and other special characters correctly
+rem Use random temp directory to avoid conflicts between different Maven versions
+set "JVM_CONFIG_PARSER_DIR=%TEMP%\mvn-jvm-parser-%RANDOM%-%RANDOM%"
+mkdir "%JVM_CONFIG_PARSER_DIR%"
+set "JVM_CONFIG_TEMP=%TEMP%\mvn-jvm-config-%RANDOM%.txt"
+set "JVM_CONFIG_ERR=%TEMP%\mvn-jvm-config-err-%RANDOM%.txt"
+"%JAVACMD:java.exe=javac.exe%" -d "%JVM_CONFIG_PARSER_DIR%" "%MAVEN_HOME%\bin\JvmConfigParser.java" >nul 2>&1
+"%JAVACMD%" -cp "%JVM_CONFIG_PARSER_DIR%" JvmConfigParser "%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR%\.mvn\jvm.config" "%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR%" > "%JVM_CONFIG_TEMP%" 2> "%JVM_CONFIG_ERR%"
+rem Read the single line from temp file
+set /p JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS=<"%JVM_CONFIG_TEMP%"
+
+rem Debug output to file for IT verification
+echo JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS=%JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS% > "%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR%\mvn-debug.txt"
+echo MAVEN_OPTS=%MAVEN_OPTS% >> "%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR%\mvn-debug.txt"
+echo PARSER_STDERR: >> "%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR%\mvn-debug.txt"
+type "%JVM_CONFIG_ERR%" >> "%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR%\mvn-debug.txt" 2>nul
+
+rem Cleanup temp files and directory
+del "%JVM_CONFIG_TEMP%" 2>nul
+del "%JVM_CONFIG_ERR%" 2>nul
+rmdir /s /q "%JVM_CONFIG_PARSER_DIR%" 2>nul
 
 :endReadJvmConfig
 
@@ -286,4 +281,4 @@ if exist "%USERPROFILE%\mavenrc_post.cmd" call "%USERPROFILE%\mavenrc_post.cmd"
 @REM pause the script if MAVEN_BATCH_PAUSE is set to 'on'
 if "%MAVEN_BATCH_PAUSE%"=="on" pause
 
-exit /b %ERROR_CODE%
+exit /b %ERROR_CODE%
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITgh11363PipeSymbolsInJvmConfigTest.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITgh11363PipeSymbolsInJvmConfigTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..95e0bba2d85e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITgh11363PipeSymbolsInJvmConfigTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ */
+package org.apache.maven.it;
+
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
+/**
+ * This is a test set for <a href="https://github.com/apache/maven/issues/11363">gh-11363</a>:
+ * Verify that pipe symbols in .mvn/jvm.config are properly handled and don't cause shell command parsing errors.
+ */
+public class MavenITgh11363PipeSymbolsInJvmConfigTest extends AbstractMavenIntegrationTestCase {
+
+    /**
+     * Verify that pipe symbols in .mvn/jvm.config are properly handled
+     */
+    @Test
+    void testPipeSymbolsInJvmConfig() throws Exception {
+        Path basedir = extractResources("/gh-11363-pipe-symbols-jvm-config")
+                .getAbsoluteFile()
+                .toPath();
+
+        Verifier verifier = newVerifier(basedir.toString());
+        verifier.setForkJvm(true); // Use forked JVM to test .mvn/jvm.config processing
+        verifier.addCliArguments("validate");
+        verifier.execute();
+        verifier.verifyErrorFreeLog();
+
+        Properties props = verifier.loadProperties("target/pom.properties");
+        assertEquals("de|*.de|my.company.mirror.de", props.getProperty("project.properties.pom.prop.nonProxyHosts"));
+        assertEquals("value|with|pipes", props.getProperty("project.properties.pom.prop.with.pipes"));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/gh-11363-pipe-symbols-jvm-config/.mvn/jvm.config b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/gh-11363-pipe-symbols-jvm-config/.mvn/jvm.config
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fa129e3da219
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/gh-11363-pipe-symbols-jvm-config/.mvn/jvm.config
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Test for MNG-11363: Maven 4 fails to parse pipe symbols in .mvn/jvm.config
+-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=de|*.de|my.company.mirror.de
+-Dprop.with.pipes="value|with|pipes"
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/gh-11363-pipe-symbols-jvm-config/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/gh-11363-pipe-symbols-jvm-config/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..52f90ad94181
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/gh-11363-pipe-symbols-jvm-config/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+    or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+    distributed with this work for additional information
+    regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+    to you 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.
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng11363</groupId>
+  <artifactId>test</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0</version>
+
+  <name>Maven Integration Test :: MNG-11363</name>
+  <description>Verify that JVM args can contain pipe symbols in .mvn/jvm.config.</description>
+
+  <properties>
+    <pom.prop.nonProxyHosts>${http.nonProxyHosts}</pom.prop.nonProxyHosts>
+    <pom.prop.with.pipes>${prop.with.pipes}</pom.prop.with.pipes>
+  </properties>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-expression</artifactId>
+        <version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>test</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>eval</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <phase>validate</phase>
+            <configuration>
+              <outputFile>target/pom.properties</outputFile>
+              <expressions>
+                <expression>project/properties</expression>
+              </expressions>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>