diff --git a/lib/trino-plugin-toolkit/src/main/java/io/trino/plugin/base/util/JsonUtils.java b/lib/trino-plugin-toolkit/src/main/java/io/trino/plugin/base/util/JsonUtils.java
index 613eaafc0e98..d4bf14267295 100644
--- a/lib/trino-plugin-toolkit/src/main/java/io/trino/plugin/base/util/JsonUtils.java
+++ b/lib/trino-plugin-toolkit/src/main/java/io/trino/plugin/base/util/JsonUtils.java
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
  */
 package io.trino.plugin.base.util;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
@@ -81,6 +82,10 @@ public static <T> T jsonTreeToValue(JsonNode treeNode, Class<T> javaType)
     static <T> T parseJson(byte[] jsonBytes, Class<T> javaType)
             throws IOException
     {
-        return OBJECT_MAPPER.readValue(jsonBytes, javaType);
+        try (JsonParser parser = OBJECT_MAPPER.createParser(jsonBytes)) {
+            T value = OBJECT_MAPPER.readValue(parser, javaType);
+            checkArgument(parser.nextToken() == null, "Found characters after the expected end of input");
+            return value;
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/lib/trino-plugin-toolkit/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/base/util/TestJsonUtils.java b/lib/trino-plugin-toolkit/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/base/util/TestJsonUtils.java
index e746e288dfbe..d82b6af83cae 100644
--- a/lib/trino-plugin-toolkit/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/base/util/TestJsonUtils.java
+++ b/lib/trino-plugin-toolkit/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/base/util/TestJsonUtils.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 package io.trino.plugin.base.util;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException;
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@
 import static io.trino.plugin.base.util.TestJsonUtils.TestEnum.OPTION_A;
 import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.US_ASCII;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy;
 
 public class TestJsonUtils
 {
@@ -44,4 +46,17 @@ public void testLowercaseEnum()
         TestObject parsed = parseJson("{\"testEnum\": \"option_a\"}".getBytes(US_ASCII), TestObject.class);
         assertThat(parsed.testEnum).isEqualTo(OPTION_A);
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testTrailingContent()
+            throws IOException
+    {
+        assertThatThrownBy(() -> parseJson("{} {}}".getBytes(US_ASCII), TestObject.class))
+                .isInstanceOf(IllegalArgumentException.class)
+                .hasMessage("Found characters after the expected end of input");
+
+        assertThatThrownBy(() -> parseJson("{} not even a JSON here".getBytes(US_ASCII), TestObject.class))
+                .isInstanceOf(JsonParseException.class)
+                .hasMessageStartingWith("Unrecognized token 'not': was expecting (JSON String, Number, Array, Object or token 'null', 'true' or 'false')");
+    }
 }