diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-rbf/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-rbf/pom.xml
index 314fb127c651ee..e24908cba9d6b4 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-rbf/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-rbf/pom.xml
@@ -351,6 +351,15 @@ https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
           </filesets>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
+        <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <excludes>
+            <exclude>src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/federation/metrics/JSON.java</exclude>
+          </excludes>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
   <profiles>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/services/AbfsClient.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/services/AbfsClient.java
index a979b0aa1e8fdb..fe12902e9d4fa4 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/services/AbfsClient.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/services/AbfsClient.java
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 package org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.services;
 
 import java.io.Closeable;
-import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
@@ -1809,7 +1808,7 @@ protected VersionedFileStatus getVersionedFileStatusFromEntry(
           entry.lastModified());
     }
 
-    Path entryPath = new Path(File.separator + entry.name());
+    Path entryPath = new Path(AbfsHttpConstants.FORWARD_SLASH + entry.name());
     if (uri != null) {
       entryPath = entryPath.makeQualified(uri, entryPath);
     }
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/services/TestAbfsClient.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/services/TestAbfsClient.java
index 8b0d7d728f562b..541612c4813305 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/services/TestAbfsClient.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/services/TestAbfsClient.java
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.AbfsConfiguration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.AbfsCountersImpl;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.MockIntercept;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.contracts.services.DfsListResultEntrySchema;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.oauth2.AccessTokenProvider;
 
+import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.constants.AbfsHttpConstants.FORWARD_SLASH;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.constants.ConfigurationKeys.FS_AZURE_METRICS_FORMAT;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.constants.ConfigurationKeys.FS_AZURE_METRICS_SHOULD_EMIT_ON_IDLE_TIME;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.services.AbfsMetricsManager.ABFS_CLIENT_TIMER_THREAD_NAME;
@@ -126,6 +128,47 @@ public void testTimerInitializationWithMetricCollection() throws Exception {
                 .isEqualTo(false);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Test that {@link AbfsClient#getVersionedFileStatusFromEntry} always builds the
+     * entry path using a forward slash, regardless of the platform-dependent
+     * {@link java.io.File#separator}. On Windows, {@code File.separator} is a
+     * backslash, and using it here used to break browsing of directories whose
+     * child entry names contain a colon (e.g. "dir:name"), because
+     * "\dir:name" gets misparsed as a URI with scheme "\dir".
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void testGetVersionedFileStatusFromEntryUsesForwardSlash() throws Exception {
+        final Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
+        AbfsConfiguration abfsConfiguration = new AbfsConfiguration(configuration, ACCOUNT_NAME);
+
+        AbfsCounters abfsCounters = spy(new AbfsCountersImpl(new URI("abcd")));
+        AbfsClientContext abfsClientContext = new AbfsClientContextBuilder().withAbfsCounters(abfsCounters)
+            .withFileSystemId(UUID.randomUUID().toString()).build();
+
+        AbfsClient client = new AbfsDfsClient(new URL("https://" + ACCOUNT_NAME + "/"),
+                null,
+                abfsConfiguration,
+                (AccessTokenProvider) null,
+                null,
+                null,
+                abfsClientContext);
+
+        final String entryName = "dir:withColon";
+        DfsListResultEntrySchema entry = new DfsListResultEntrySchema()
+            .withName(entryName)
+            .withIsDirectory(true);
+
+        VersionedFileStatus status = client.getVersionedFileStatusFromEntry(entry, null);
+
+        assertThat(status.getPath().toUri().getPath())
+                .describedAs("Entry path must be built with '/' regardless of the "
+                        + "platform's File.separator, so folder names containing ':' "
+                        + "are not misparsed as a URI scheme on Windows")
+                .isEqualTo(FORWARD_SLASH + entryName);
+
+        client.close();
+    }
+
     /**
      * Check if a thread with the specified name is running.
      *