diff --git a/src/Storages/MergeTree/registerStorageMergeTree.cpp b/src/Storages/MergeTree/registerStorageMergeTree.cpp
index 44548e33d46..9a65d590453 100644
--- a/src/Storages/MergeTree/registerStorageMergeTree.cpp
+++ b/src/Storages/MergeTree/registerStorageMergeTree.cpp
@@ -538,6 +538,9 @@ static StoragePtr create(const StorageFactory::Arguments & args)
 
         if (replica_name.empty())
             throw Exception(ErrorCodes::NO_REPLICA_NAME_GIVEN, "No replica name in config{}", verbose_help_message);
+        // '\t' and '\n' will interrupt parsing 'source replica' in ReplicatedMergeTreeLogEntryData::readText
+        if (replica_name.find('\t') != String::npos || replica_name.find('\n') != String::npos)
+            throw Exception(ErrorCodes::BAD_ARGUMENTS, "Replica name must not contain '\\t' or '\\n'");
 
         arg_cnt = engine_args.size(); /// Update `arg_cnt` here because extractZooKeeperPathAndReplicaNameFromEngineArgs() could add arguments.
         arg_num = 2;                  /// zookeeper_path and replica_name together are always two arguments.