diff --git a/container/shared/src/main/resources/etc/container.init b/container/shared/src/main/resources/etc/container.init
index f35193c9462c..304b82e282ee 100755
--- a/container/shared/src/main/resources/etc/container.init
+++ b/container/shared/src/main/resources/etc/container.init
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ unset JAVA_OPTS
 # always dump heap if we OOM
 EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS="$EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow"
 
+# work around a karaf zip bug
+EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS="$EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS -Djdk.util.zip.disableZip64ExtraFieldValidation=true"
+
 # export any default configurable variables from sysconf
 export RUNAS JAVA_MIN_MEM JAVA_MAX_MEM MAX_FD JAVA_HOME JAVA JAVA_DEBUG_OPTS JAVA_DEBUG_PORT EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS CLASSPATH KARAF_DEBUG LD_LIBRARY_PATH