diff --git a/media/json-binding/src/main/java/org/glassfish/jersey/jsonb/internal/JsonBindingProvider.java b/media/json-binding/src/main/java/org/glassfish/jersey/jsonb/internal/JsonBindingProvider.java
index 3d4ad43aa9..3ac8031e87 100644
--- a/media/json-binding/src/main/java/org/glassfish/jersey/jsonb/internal/JsonBindingProvider.java
+++ b/media/json-binding/src/main/java/org/glassfish/jersey/jsonb/internal/JsonBindingProvider.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.NoContentException;
 import javax.ws.rs.ext.ContextResolver;
 import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
 import javax.ws.rs.ext.Providers;
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@
 
 import org.glassfish.jersey.jsonb.LocalizationMessages;
 import org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.AbstractMessageReaderWriterProvider;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.EntityInputStream;
 
 /**
  * Entity provider (reader and writer) for JSONB.
@@ -70,7 +72,14 @@ public Object readFrom(Class<Object> type, Type genericType,
                            MediaType mediaType,
                            MultivaluedMap<String, String> httpHeaders,
                            InputStream entityStream) throws IOException, WebApplicationException {
+        final EntityInputStream entityInputStream =  new EntityInputStream(entityStream);
+        entityStream = entityInputStream;
+        if (entityInputStream.isEmpty()) {
+            throw new NoContentException(LocalizationMessages.ERROR_JSONB_EMPTYSTREAM());
+        }
+
         Jsonb jsonb = getJsonb(type);
+
         try {
             return jsonb.fromJson(entityStream, genericType);
         } catch (JsonbException e) {
diff --git a/media/json-binding/src/main/resources/org/glassfish/jersey/jsonb/localization.properties b/media/json-binding/src/main/resources/org/glassfish/jersey/jsonb/localization.properties
index c7b5a949d5..4eee493a70 100644
--- a/media/json-binding/src/main/resources/org/glassfish/jersey/jsonb/localization.properties
+++ b/media/json-binding/src/main/resources/org/glassfish/jersey/jsonb/localization.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2017, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2017, 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 #
 # This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 # terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0, which is available at
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@
 
 error.jsonb.serialization=Error writing JSON-B serialized object.
 error.jsonb.deserialization=Error deserializing object from entity stream.
+error.jsonb.emptystream=JSON-B cannot parse empty input stream.
diff --git a/media/json-binding/src/test/java/org/glassfish/jersey/jsonb/internal/JsonBindingProviderTest.java b/media/json-binding/src/test/java/org/glassfish/jersey/jsonb/internal/JsonBindingProviderTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1a8cf00bc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media/json-binding/src/test/java/org/glassfish/jersey/jsonb/internal/JsonBindingProviderTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2020 Markus KARG
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0, which is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+ *
+ * This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
+ * Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the
+ * Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License,
+ * version 2 with the GNU Classpath Exception, which is available at
+ * https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
+ */
+
+package org.glassfish.jersey.jsonb.internal;
+
+import static javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedHashMap;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.NoContentException;
+import javax.ws.rs.ext.ContextResolver;
+import javax.ws.rs.ext.ExceptionMapper;
+import javax.ws.rs.ext.MessageBodyReader;
+import javax.ws.rs.ext.MessageBodyWriter;
+import javax.ws.rs.ext.Providers;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/**
+ * Unit Test for {@link JsonBindingProvider}.
+ *
+ * @author Markus KARG (markus@headcrashing.eu)
+ */
+public final class JsonBindingProviderTest {
+
+    @Test(expected = NoContentException.class)
+    public final void shouldThrowNoContentException() throws IOException {
+        // given
+        final Providers providers = new EmptyProviders();
+        final MessageBodyReader<Foo> mbr = (MessageBodyReader) new JsonBindingProvider(providers);
+
+        // when
+        mbr.readFrom(Foo.class, Foo.class, new Annotation[0], APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE,
+                new MultivaluedHashMap<>(), new ByteArrayInputStream(new byte[0]));
+
+        // then
+        // should throw NoContentException
+    }
+
+    private static final class Foo {
+        // no members
+    }
+
+    private static final class EmptyProviders implements Providers {
+
+        @Override
+        public final <T> MessageBodyReader<T> getMessageBodyReader(final Class<T> type, final Type genericType,
+                final Annotation[] annotations, final MediaType mediaType) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public final <T> MessageBodyWriter<T> getMessageBodyWriter(final Class<T> type, final Type genericType,
+                final Annotation[] annotations, final MediaType mediaType) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public final <T extends Throwable> ExceptionMapper<T> getExceptionMapper(final Class<T> type) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public final <T> ContextResolver<T> getContextResolver(final Class<T> contextType, final MediaType mediaType) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+    }
+
+}