diff --git a/core-common/src/main/java/org/glassfish/jersey/internal/util/ReflectionHelper.java b/core-common/src/main/java/org/glassfish/jersey/internal/util/ReflectionHelper.java
index 9aeb5d19ef..7e6041455d 100644
--- a/core-common/src/main/java/org/glassfish/jersey/internal/util/ReflectionHelper.java
+++ b/core-common/src/main/java/org/glassfish/jersey/internal/util/ReflectionHelper.java
@@ -963,9 +963,13 @@ public static String getPropertyName(final Method method) {
         final int offset = methodName.startsWith("is") ? 2 : 3;
 
         final char[] chars = methodName.toCharArray();
-        chars[offset] = Character.toLowerCase(chars[offset]);
 
-        return new String(chars, offset, chars.length - offset);
+        if (offset < chars.length) {
+            chars[offset] = Character.toLowerCase(chars[offset]);
+            return new String(chars, offset, chars.length - offset);
+        } else {
+            return "";
+        }
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/core-common/src/test/java/org/glassfish/jersey/internal/util/ReflectionHelperTest.java b/core-common/src/test/java/org/glassfish/jersey/internal/util/ReflectionHelperTest.java
index d0fcec0d9e..ab03e7d978 100644
--- a/core-common/src/test/java/org/glassfish/jersey/internal/util/ReflectionHelperTest.java
+++ b/core-common/src/test/java/org/glassfish/jersey/internal/util/ReflectionHelperTest.java
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ public void securityManagerSetContextClassLoaderInDoPrivileged() throws Exceptio
 
         AccessController.doPrivileged(ReflectionHelper.setContextClassLoaderPA(loader));
         fail("It should not be possible to set context class loader even from privileged block via Jersey ReflectionHelper "
-                + "utility");
+                     + "utility");
     }
 
     public static class FromStringClass {
@@ -186,4 +186,28 @@ public void testGetFromStringStringMethodNegative() throws Exception {
 
         assertThat("Invalid valueOf method found.", methodPA.run(), nullValue());
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testForPropertyNameNormalGetter() throws Exception {
+        class TestGet {
+            public int getProp() {
+                return 1;
+            }
+        }
+        Method method = TestGet.class.getMethod("getProp");
+        final String propertyName = ReflectionHelper.getPropertyName(method);
+        assertThat("getPropertyName should extract the correct property", propertyName, is("prop"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testForPropertyNameOfGetMethod() throws Exception {
+        class TestGet {
+            public int get() {
+                return 0;
+            }
+        }
+        Method method = TestGet.class.getMethod("get");
+        String propertyName = ReflectionHelper.getPropertyName(method);
+        assertThat("get method should not have a property name", propertyName, is(""));
+    }
 }