diff --git a/src/Storages/getStructureOfRemoteTable.cpp b/src/Storages/getStructureOfRemoteTable.cpp
index b2737249166..e5fc01be9f4 100644
--- a/src/Storages/getStructureOfRemoteTable.cpp
+++ b/src/Storages/getStructureOfRemoteTable.cpp
@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ ColumnsDescription getStructureOfRemoteTableInShard(
     ColumnsDescription res;
     auto new_context = ClusterProxy::updateSettingsForCluster(cluster, context, context->getSettingsRef(), table_id);
 
+    /// Ignore limit for result number of rows (that could be set during handling CSE/CTE),
+    /// since this is a service query and should not lead to query failure.
+    {
+        Settings new_settings = new_context->getSettings();
+        new_settings.max_result_rows = 0;
+        new_settings.max_result_bytes = 0;
+        new_context->setSettings(new_settings);
+    }
+
     /// Expect only needed columns from the result of DESC TABLE. NOTE 'comment' column is ignored for compatibility reasons.
     Block sample_block
     {
diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/02768_cse_nested_distributed.reference b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02768_cse_nested_distributed.reference
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e8183f05f5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02768_cse_nested_distributed.reference
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+1
+1
+1
diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/02768_cse_nested_distributed.sql b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02768_cse_nested_distributed.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..90e526c0d01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02768_cse_nested_distributed.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+with (select count() > 0 from remote('127.2', system.settings)) as s select s;
+-- nested
+with (select count() > 0 from remote('127.2', remote('127.2', system.settings))) as s select s;
+-- nested via view()
+with (select count() > 0 from remote('127.2', view(select count() from remote('127.2', system.settings)))) as s select s;