diff --git a/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/JSONColumnsWithMetadataBlockInputFormat.cpp b/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/JSONColumnsWithMetadataBlockInputFormat.cpp
index 23c6114fb39..572b3b0703f 100644
--- a/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/JSONColumnsWithMetadataBlockInputFormat.cpp
+++ b/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/JSONColumnsWithMetadataBlockInputFormat.cpp
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ void registerInputFormatJSONColumnsWithMetadata(FormatFactory & factory)
     factory.registerInputFormat(
         "JSONColumnsWithMetadata",
         [](ReadBuffer & buf,
-           const Block &sample,
+           const Block & sample,
            const RowInputFormatParams &,
            const FormatSettings & settings)
         {
diff --git a/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/JSONColumnsWithMetadataBlockInputFormat.h b/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/JSONColumnsWithMetadataBlockInputFormat.h
index 9a6ed79c522..265f76a74c1 100644
--- a/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/JSONColumnsWithMetadataBlockInputFormat.h
+++ b/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/JSONColumnsWithMetadataBlockInputFormat.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ public:
     bool checkChunkEnd() override;
 
 private:
-    const Block & header;
+    const Block header;
     const bool validate_types_from_metadata;
 };
 
diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/02982_json_columns_with_metadata_http.reference b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02982_json_columns_with_metadata_http.reference
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d03bf4df6cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02982_json_columns_with_metadata_http.reference
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+1	4
+2	5
+3	6
diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/02982_json_columns_with_metadata_http.sh b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02982_json_columns_with_metadata_http.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..41c06ceae61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02982_json_columns_with_metadata_http.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+CUR_DIR=$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)
+# shellcheck source=../shell_config.sh
+. "$CUR_DIR"/../shell_config.sh
+
+$CLICKHOUSE_CLIENT -q "drop table if exists test"
+$CLICKHOUSE_CLIENT -q "create table test(x UInt32, y UInt32) engine=Memory"
+
+echo -ne '{"meta":[{"name":"x","type":"UInt32"}, {"name":"y", "type":"UInt32"}],"data":{"x":[1,2,3],"y":[4,5,6]}}\n' | ${CLICKHOUSE_CURL} -sS "{$CLICKHOUSE_URL}&query=INSERT%20INTO%20test%20FORMAT%20JSONColumnsWithMetadata" --data-binary @-
+
+$CLICKHOUSE_CLIENT -q "select * from test"
+$CLICKHOUSE_CLIENT -q "drop table test"
+