diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index bcb099b4db24a582413369bf856416096000f6ad..a246ccc7482ae1fed89f5d0bb0abf960c6ed01f2 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ OpenLDAP 2.4 Change Log
 OpenLDAP 2.4.22 Engineering
 	Added slapd SLAP_SCHEMA_EXPOSE flag for hidden schema elements (ITS#6435)
 	Fixed slapd certificateListValidate (ITS#6466)
+	Fixed slapd empty URI parsing (ITS#6465)
 	Fixed slapd REP_ENTRY flag handling (ITS#5340)
 	Fixed slapd sasl auxprop_lookup (ITS#6441)
 	Fixed slapo-collect REP_ENTRY flag handling (ITS#5340,ITS#6423)
diff --git a/servers/slapd/config.c b/servers/slapd/config.c
index a08242ddf3a07a9f6b4ca1acb75e4689153a1157..bc1e4b486bce10372e4f21d08505b4c199e40d30 100644
--- a/servers/slapd/config.c
+++ b/servers/slapd/config.c
@@ -1458,23 +1458,31 @@ slap_cf_aux_table_unparse( void *src, struct berval *bv, slap_cf_aux_table *tab0
 			break;
 
 		case 'x':
-			*ptr++ = ' ';
-			ptr = lutil_strcopy( ptr, tab->key.bv_val );
-			if ( tab->quote ) *ptr++ = '"';
-			if ( tab->aux != NULL ) {
-				struct berval value;
-				slap_cf_aux_table_parse_x *func = (slap_cf_aux_table_parse_x *)tab->aux;
-				int rc;
+			{
+				char *saveptr=ptr;
+				*ptr++ = ' ';
+				ptr = lutil_strcopy( ptr, tab->key.bv_val );
+				if ( tab->quote ) *ptr++ = '"';
+				if ( tab->aux != NULL ) {
+					struct berval value;
+					slap_cf_aux_table_parse_x *func = (slap_cf_aux_table_parse_x *)tab->aux;
+					int rc;
 
-				value.bv_val = ptr;
-				value.bv_len = buf + sizeof( buf ) - ptr;
+					value.bv_val = ptr;
+					value.bv_len = buf + sizeof( buf ) - ptr;
 
-				rc = func( &value, (void *)((char *)src + tab->off), tab, "(unparse)", 1 );
-				if ( rc == 0 ) {
-					ptr += value.bv_len;
+					rc = func( &value, (void *)((char *)src + tab->off), tab, "(unparse)", 1 );
+					if ( rc == 0 ) {
+						if (value.bv_len) {
+							ptr += value.bv_len;
+						} else {
+							ptr = saveptr;
+							break;
+						}
+					}
 				}
+				if ( tab->quote ) *ptr++ = '"';
 			}
-			if ( tab->quote ) *ptr++ = '"';
 			break;
 
 		default: