diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/PSConfiguration.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/PSConfiguration.cs
index aacf5c50e32..2423a87aeb6 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/PSConfiguration.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/PSConfiguration.cs
@@ -402,6 +402,10 @@ private T ReadValueFromFile<T>(ConfigScope scope, string key, T defaultValue = d
 
                         configData = serializer.Deserialize<JObject>(jsonReader) ?? emptyConfig;
                     }
+                    catch (Exception exc)
+                    {
+                        throw PSTraceSource.NewInvalidOperationException(exc, PSConfigurationStrings.CanNotConfigurationFile, args: fileName);
+                    }
                     finally
                     {
                         fileLock.ExitReadLock();
diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/resources/PSConfigurationStrings.resx b/src/System.Management.Automation/resources/PSConfigurationStrings.resx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a1671d7f9e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/resources/PSConfigurationStrings.resx
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<root>
+  <!--
+    Microsoft ResX Schema
+
+    Version 2.0
+
+    The primary goals of this format is to allow a simple XML format
+    that is mostly human readable. The generation and parsing of the
+    various data types are done through the TypeConverter classes
+    associated with the data types.
+
+    Example:
+
+    ... ado.net/XML headers & schema ...
+    <resheader name="resmimetype">text/microsoft-resx</resheader>
+    <resheader name="version">2.0</resheader>
+    <resheader name="reader">System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, ...</resheader>
+    <resheader name="writer">System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, ...</resheader>
+    <data name="Name1"><value>this is my long string</value><comment>this is a comment</comment></data>
+    <data name="Color1" type="System.Drawing.Color, System.Drawing">Blue</data>
+    <data name="Bitmap1" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64">
+        <value>[base64 mime encoded serialized .NET Framework object]</value>
+    </data>
+    <data name="Icon1" type="System.Drawing.Icon, System.Drawing" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.bytearray.base64">
+        <value>[base64 mime encoded string representing a byte array form of the .NET Framework object]</value>
+        <comment>This is a comment</comment>
+    </data>
+
+    There are any number of "resheader" rows that contain simple
+    name/value pairs.
+
+    Each data row contains a name, and value. The row also contains a
+    type or mimetype. Type corresponds to a .NET class that support
+    text/value conversion through the TypeConverter architecture.
+    Classes that don't support this are serialized and stored with the
+    mimetype set.
+
+    The mimetype is used for serialized objects, and tells the
+    ResXResourceReader how to depersist the object. This is currently not
+    extensible. For a given mimetype the value must be set accordingly:
+
+    Note - application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64 is the format
+    that the ResXResourceWriter will generate, however the reader can
+    read any of the formats listed below.
+
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized with
+            : System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.soap.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized with
+            : System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.bytearray.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized into a byte array
+            : using a System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+    -->
+  <xsd:schema id="root" xmlns="" xmlns:xsd="https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
+    <xsd:import namespace="https://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" />
+    <xsd:element name="root" msdata:IsDataSet="true">
+      <xsd:complexType>
+        <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
+          <xsd:element name="metadata">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" use="required" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute ref="xml:space" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="assembly">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:attribute name="alias" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="data">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+                <xsd:element name="comment" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="2" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="3" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="4" />
+              <xsd:attribute ref="xml:space" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="resheader">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+        </xsd:choice>
+      </xsd:complexType>
+    </xsd:element>
+  </xsd:schema>
+  <resheader name="resmimetype">
+    <value>text/microsoft-resx</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="version">
+    <value>2.0</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="reader">
+    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="writer">
+    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <data name="CanNotConfigurationFile" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>PowerShell has stopped working because of a security issue: Cannot read the configuration file: {0}</value>
+  </data>
+</root>
diff --git a/test/xUnit/csharp/test_PSConfiguration.cs b/test/xUnit/csharp/test_PSConfiguration.cs
index 45e057bea75..558d8b6e3ca 100644
--- a/test/xUnit/csharp/test_PSConfiguration.cs
+++ b/test/xUnit/csharp/test_PSConfiguration.cs
@@ -361,6 +361,22 @@ private void CreateEmptyFile(string fileName)
             File.Create(fileName).Dispose();
         }
 
+        public void SetupConfigFile5()
+        {
+            CleanupConfigFiles();
+
+            // System wide config file is broken
+            CreateBrokenConfigFile(systemWideConfigFile);
+
+            // Current user config file is broken
+            CreateBrokenConfigFile(currentUserConfigFile);
+        }
+
+        private void CreateBrokenConfigFile(string fileName)
+        {
+            File.WriteAllText(fileName, "[abbra");
+        }
+
         internal void ForceReadingFromFile()
         {
             // Reset the cached roots.
@@ -951,5 +967,15 @@ public void Utils_GetPolicySetting_BothConfigFilesNotExist()
             consoleSessionConfiguration = Utils.GetPolicySetting<ConsoleSessionConfiguration>(Utils.CurrentUserThenSystemWideConfig);
             fixture.CompareConsoleSessionConfiguration(consoleSessionConfiguration, null);
         }
+
+        [Fact, TestPriority(11)]
+        public void PowerShellConfig_GetPowerShellPolicies_BrokenSystemConfig()
+        {
+            fixture.SetupConfigFile5();
+            fixture.ForceReadingFromFile();
+
+            Assert.Throws<System.Management.Automation.PSInvalidOperationException>(() => PowerShellConfig.Instance.GetPowerShellPolicies(ConfigScope.AllUsers));
+            Assert.Throws<System.Management.Automation.PSInvalidOperationException>(() => PowerShellConfig.Instance.GetPowerShellPolicies(ConfigScope.CurrentUser));
+        }
     }
 }