diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authz/IndicesAndAliasesResolver.java b/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authz/IndicesAndAliasesResolver.java
index 674435815e04d..a85e383f2fe8b 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authz/IndicesAndAliasesResolver.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authz/IndicesAndAliasesResolver.java
@@ -340,10 +340,12 @@ ResolvedIndices resolveIndicesAndAliases(
             String allIndicesPatternSelector = null;
             if (indicesRequest.indices() != null && indicesRequest.indices().length > 0) {
                 // Always parse selectors, but do so lazily so that we don't spend a lot of time splitting strings each resolution
-                isAllIndices = IndexNameExpressionResolver.isAllIndices(
-                    indicesList(indicesRequest.indices()),
-                    (expr) -> IndexNameExpressionResolver.splitSelectorExpression(expr).v1()
-                );
+                isAllIndices = IndexNameExpressionResolver.isAllIndices(indicesList(indicesRequest.indices()), (expr) -> {
+                    var unprefixed = crossProjectModeDecider.resolvesCrossProject(replaceable)
+                        ? RemoteClusterAware.splitIndexName(expr)[1]
+                        : expr;
+                    return IndexNameExpressionResolver.splitSelectorExpression(unprefixed).v1();
+                });
                 if (isAllIndices) {
                     // This parses the single all-indices expression for a second time in this conditional branch, but this is better than
                     // parsing a potentially big list of indices on every request.
@@ -394,12 +396,13 @@ ResolvedIndices resolveIndicesAndAliases(
                             replaceable.getProjectRouting(),
                             authorizedProjects
                         );
-                        remoteIndices = CrossProjectIndexExpressionsRewriter.rewriteIndexExpression(
+                        final var rewritten = CrossProjectIndexExpressionsRewriter.rewriteIndexExpression(
                             indexExpression,
                             resolvedProjects.originProjectAlias(),
                             resolvedProjects.allProjectAliases()
-                        ).remoteExpressions();
-                        if (resolvedProjects.originProject() == null) {
+                        );
+                        remoteIndices = rewritten.remoteExpressions();
+                        if (resolvedProjects.originProject() == null || rewritten.localExpression() == null) {
                             shouldExcludeLocalResolution = true;
                         }
                     }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/security/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authz/IndicesAndAliasesResolverTests.java b/x-pack/plugin/security/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authz/IndicesAndAliasesResolverTests.java
index e4bb9664beaee..f875c299cfca6 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/security/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authz/IndicesAndAliasesResolverTests.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/security/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authz/IndicesAndAliasesResolverTests.java
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@
 
 import static org.elasticsearch.action.ResolvedIndexExpression.LocalIndexResolutionResult.CONCRETE_RESOURCE_NOT_VISIBLE;
 import static org.elasticsearch.action.ResolvedIndexExpression.LocalIndexResolutionResult.CONCRETE_RESOURCE_UNAUTHORIZED;
+import static org.elasticsearch.action.ResolvedIndexExpression.LocalIndexResolutionResult.NONE;
 import static org.elasticsearch.action.ResolvedIndexExpression.LocalIndexResolutionResult.SUCCESS;
 import static org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.DataStreamTestHelper.newInstance;
 import static org.elasticsearch.test.ActionListenerUtils.anyActionListener;
@@ -2956,6 +2957,118 @@ public void testCrossProjectSearchSelectorsNotAllowed() {
         assertThat(exception.getMessage(), equalTo("Selectors are not currently supported but was found in the expression [_all::data]"));
     }
 
+    public void testResolveAllWithWildcardRemotePrefix() {
+        when(crossProjectModeDecider.resolvesCrossProject(any(IndicesRequest.Replaceable.class))).thenReturn(true);
+
+        var request = new SearchRequest().indices("*:_all");
+        request.indicesOptions(IndicesOptions.fromOptions(randomBoolean(), randomBoolean(), true, true));
+        var resolvedIndices = defaultIndicesResolver.resolveIndicesAndAliases(
+            "indices:/" + randomAlphaOfLength(8),
+            request,
+            projectMetadata,
+            buildAuthorizedIndices(user, TransportSearchAction.TYPE.name()),
+            new TargetProjects(
+                createRandomProjectWithAlias("local"),
+                List.of(createRandomProjectWithAlias("P1"), createRandomProjectWithAlias("P2"), createRandomProjectWithAlias("P3"))
+            )
+        );
+
+        var expectedIndices = new String[] { "bar", "foobarfoo", "bar-closed", "foofoobar", "foofoo-closed", "foofoo" };
+
+        assertThat(resolvedIndices.getLocal(), contains(expectedIndices));
+        assertThat(resolvedIndices.getRemote(), containsInAnyOrder("P1:_all", "P2:_all", "P3:_all"));
+
+        final var resolved = request.getResolvedIndexExpressions();
+        assertThat(resolved, is(notNullValue()));
+        assertThat(
+            resolved.expressions(),
+            contains(resolvedIndexExpression("*:_all", Set.of(expectedIndices), SUCCESS, Set.of("P1:_all", "P2:_all", "P3:_all")))
+        );
+    }
+
+    public void testResolveAllWithLocalPrefix() {
+        when(crossProjectModeDecider.resolvesCrossProject(any(IndicesRequest.Replaceable.class))).thenReturn(true);
+
+        var expression = randomBoolean() ? "local:_all" : "_origin:_all";
+        var request = new SearchRequest().indices(expression);
+        request.indicesOptions(IndicesOptions.fromOptions(randomBoolean(), randomBoolean(), true, true));
+        var resolvedIndices = defaultIndicesResolver.resolveIndicesAndAliases(
+            "indices:/" + randomAlphaOfLength(8),
+            request,
+            projectMetadata,
+            buildAuthorizedIndices(user, TransportSearchAction.TYPE.name()),
+            new TargetProjects(
+                createRandomProjectWithAlias("local"),
+                List.of(createRandomProjectWithAlias("P1"), createRandomProjectWithAlias("P2"), createRandomProjectWithAlias("P3"))
+            )
+        );
+
+        var expectedIndices = new String[] { "bar", "foobarfoo", "bar-closed", "foofoobar", "foofoo-closed", "foofoo" };
+
+        assertThat(resolvedIndices.getLocal(), contains(expectedIndices));
+        assertThat(resolvedIndices.getRemote(), is(empty()));
+
+        final var resolved = request.getResolvedIndexExpressions();
+        assertThat(resolved, is(notNullValue()));
+        assertThat(resolved.expressions(), contains(resolvedIndexExpression(expression, Set.of(expectedIndices), SUCCESS, Set.of())));
+    }
+
+    public void testResolveAllWithRemotePrefix() {
+        when(crossProjectModeDecider.resolvesCrossProject(any(IndicesRequest.Replaceable.class))).thenReturn(true);
+
+        var request = new SearchRequest().indices("P*:_all");
+        request.indicesOptions(IndicesOptions.fromOptions(randomBoolean(), randomBoolean(), true, true));
+        var resolvedIndices = defaultIndicesResolver.resolveIndicesAndAliases(
+            "indices:/" + randomAlphaOfLength(8),
+            request,
+            projectMetadata,
+            buildAuthorizedIndices(user, TransportSearchAction.TYPE.name()),
+            new TargetProjects(
+                createRandomProjectWithAlias("local"),
+                List.of(createRandomProjectWithAlias("P1"), createRandomProjectWithAlias("P2"), createRandomProjectWithAlias("P3"))
+            )
+        );
+
+        assertThat(resolvedIndices.getLocal(), is(empty()));
+        assertThat(resolvedIndices.getRemote(), contains("P1:_all", "P2:_all", "P3:_all"));
+
+        final var resolved = request.getResolvedIndexExpressions();
+        assertThat(resolved, is(notNullValue()));
+        assertThat(
+            resolved.expressions(),
+            contains(resolvedIndexExpression("P*:_all", Set.of(), NONE, Set.of("P1:_all", "P2:_all", "P3:_all")))
+        );
+    }
+
+    public void testResolveIndexWithRemotePrefix() {
+        when(crossProjectModeDecider.resolvesCrossProject(any(IndicesRequest.Replaceable.class))).thenReturn(true);
+
+        var request = new SearchRequest().indices("*:bar");
+        request.indicesOptions(IndicesOptions.fromOptions(randomBoolean(), randomBoolean(), true, true));
+        var resolvedIndices = defaultIndicesResolver.resolveIndicesAndAliases(
+            "indices:/" + randomAlphaOfLength(8),
+            request,
+            projectMetadata,
+            buildAuthorizedIndices(user, TransportSearchAction.TYPE.name()),
+            new TargetProjects(
+                createRandomProjectWithAlias("local"),
+                List.of(createRandomProjectWithAlias("P1"), createRandomProjectWithAlias("P2"), createRandomProjectWithAlias("P3"))
+            )
+        );
+
+        var expectedIndices = new String[] { "bar" };
+
+        assertThat(resolvedIndices.getLocal(), contains(expectedIndices));
+        assertThat(resolvedIndices.getRemote(), containsInAnyOrder("P1:bar", "P2:bar", "P3:bar"));
+
+        final var resolved = request.getResolvedIndexExpressions();
+        assertThat(resolved, is(notNullValue()));
+        assertThat(
+            resolved.expressions(),
+            contains(resolvedIndexExpression("*:bar", Set.of(expectedIndices), SUCCESS, Set.of("P1:bar", "P2:bar", "P3:bar")))
+        );
+    }
+
     private void assertIndicesMatch(IndicesRequest.Replaceable request, String expression, List<String> indices, String[] expectedIndices) {
         assertThat(indices, hasSize(expectedIndices.length));
         assertThat(request.indices().length, equalTo(expectedIndices.length));