diff --git a/src/functions/TestResults.NUnit3.ps1 b/src/functions/TestResults.NUnit3.ps1
index c97fbd8c6..55380f438 100644
--- a/src/functions/TestResults.NUnit3.ps1
+++ b/src/functions/TestResults.NUnit3.ps1
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # NUnit3 schema docs: https://docs.nunit.org/articles/nunit/technical-notes/usage/Test-Result-XML-Format.html
 
+[char[]] $script:invalidCDataChars = foreach ($ch in (0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07, 0x08, 0x0B, 0x0C, 0x0E, 0x0F, 0x10, 0x11, 0x12, 0x13, 0x14, 0x15, 0x16, 0x17, 0x18, 0x19, 0x1A, 0x1B, 0x1C, 0x1D, 0x1E, 0x1F)) { [char]$ch }
+
 function Write-NUnit3Report([Pester.Run] $Result, [System.Xml.XmlWriter] $XmlWriter) {
     # Write the XML Declaration
     $XmlWriter.WriteStartDocument($false)
@@ -539,14 +541,39 @@ function Write-NUnit3TestCaseAttributes {
 }
 
 function Write-NUnit3OutputElement ($Output, [System.Xml.XmlWriter] $XmlWriter) {
-    $outputString = @(foreach ($o in $Output) {
-        if ($null -eq $o) {
-            [string]::Empty
-        } else {
-            $o.ToString()
+    # The characters in the range 0x01 to 0x20 are invalid for CData
+    # (with the exception of the characters 0x09, 0x0A and 0x0D)
+    # We convert each of these using the unicode printable version,
+    # which is obtained by adding 0x2400
+    [int]$unicodeControlPictures = 0x2400
+
+    # Avoid indexing into an enumerable, such as a `string`, when there is only one item in the
+    # output array.
+    $out = @($Output)
+    $linesCount = $out.Length
+    $o = for ($i = 0; $i -lt $linesCount; $i++) {
+        # The input is array of objects, convert them to strings.
+        $line = if ($null -eq $out[$i]) { [String]::Empty } else { $out[$i].ToString() }
+
+        if (0 -gt $line.IndexOfAny($script:invalidCDataChars)) {
+            # No special chars that need replacing.
+            $line
+        }
+        else {
+            $chars = [char[]]$line;
+            $charCount = $chars.Length
+            for ($j = 0; $j -lt $charCount; $j++) {
+                $char = $chars[$j]
+                if ($char -in $script:invalidCDataChars) {
+                    $chars[$j] = [char]([int]$char + $unicodeControlPictures)
+                }
+            }
+
+            $chars -join ''
         }
-    }) -join [System.Environment]::NewLine
+    }
 
+    $outputString = $o -join [Environment]::NewLine
     $XmlWriter.WriteStartElement('output')
     $XmlWriter.WriteCData($outputString)
     $XmlWriter.WriteEndElement()
diff --git a/tst/Pester.RSpec.TestResults.NUnit3.ts.ps1 b/tst/Pester.RSpec.TestResults.NUnit3.ts.ps1
index 27dbb5951..d000a4e4e 100644
--- a/tst/Pester.RSpec.TestResults.NUnit3.ts.ps1
+++ b/tst/Pester.RSpec.TestResults.NUnit3.ts.ps1
@@ -349,6 +349,34 @@ i -PassThru:$PassThru {
             $xmlResult.Validate({ throw $args[1].Exception })
         }
 
+        t 'replaces virtual terminal escape sequences with their printable representations' {
+            $sb = {
+                Describe 'Describe VT Sequences' {
+                    It "Successful" {
+                        $esc = [char][int]0x1B
+                        $bell = [char][int]0x07
+
+                        # write escape sequences to output
+                        "$esc[32mHello`tWorld$esc[0m"
+                        "Ring the bell$bell"
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            $r = Invoke-Pester -Configuration ([PesterConfiguration]@{ Run = @{ ScriptBlock = $sb; PassThru = $true }; Output = @{ Verbosity = 'None' } })
+
+            $xmlResult = [xml] ($r | ConvertTo-NUnitReport -Format NUnit3)
+            $xmlResult.Schemas.XmlResolver = New-Object System.Xml.XmlUrlResolver
+            $xmlResult.Schemas.Add($null, $schemaPath) > $null
+            $xmlResult.Validate({ throw $args[1].Exception })
+            $xmlDescribe = $xmlResult.'test-run'.'test-suite'.'test-suite'
+            $xmlTest = $xmlDescribe.'test-case'
+            $message = $xmlTest.output.'#cdata-section' -split "`n"
+
+            # message has the escape sequences replaced with their printable representations
+            $message[0] | Verify-Equal "␛[32mHello`tWorld␛[0m"
+            $message[1] | Verify-Equal "Ring the bell␇"
+        }
+
         t 'should use TestResult.TestSuiteName configuration value as name-attribute for run and root Assembly test-suite' {
             $sb = {
                 Describe 'Describe' {