diff --git a/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/main/java/io/swagger/v3/parser/OpenAPIV3Parser.java b/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/main/java/io/swagger/v3/parser/OpenAPIV3Parser.java
index a00ea9f2cc..e07b963f9e 100644
--- a/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/main/java/io/swagger/v3/parser/OpenAPIV3Parser.java
+++ b/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/main/java/io/swagger/v3/parser/OpenAPIV3Parser.java
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 import io.swagger.v3.parser.util.OpenAPIDeserializer;
 import io.swagger.v3.parser.util.RemoteUrl;
 import io.swagger.v3.parser.util.ResolverFully;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@
 import java.util.ServiceLoader;
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException;
 import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -227,6 +229,9 @@ private String readContentFromLocation(String location, List<AuthorizationValue>
         try {
             if (adjustedLocation.toLowerCase().startsWith("http")) {
                 return RemoteUrl.urlToString(adjustedLocation, auth);
+            } else if (adjustedLocation.toLowerCase().startsWith("jar:")) {
+                final InputStream in = new URI(adjustedLocation).toURL().openStream();
+                return IOUtils.toString(in, encoding);
             } else {
                 final String fileScheme = "file:";
                 final Path path = adjustedLocation.toLowerCase().startsWith(fileScheme) ?
diff --git a/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/main/java/io/swagger/v3/parser/ResolverCache.java b/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/main/java/io/swagger/v3/parser/ResolverCache.java
index e40db066fc..6ac132ba34 100644
--- a/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/main/java/io/swagger/v3/parser/ResolverCache.java
+++ b/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/main/java/io/swagger/v3/parser/ResolverCache.java
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ public ResolverCache(OpenAPI openApi, List<AuthorizationValue> auths, String par
         this.rootPath = parentFileLocation;
 
         if(parentFileLocation != null) {
-            if(parentFileLocation.startsWith("http")) {
+            if(parentFileLocation.startsWith("http") || parentFileLocation.startsWith("jar")) {
                 parentDirectory = null;
             } else {
                 parentDirectory = PathUtils.getParentDirectoryOfFile(parentFileLocation);
diff --git a/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/test/java/io/swagger/v3/parser/test/OpenAPIV3ParserTest.java b/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/test/java/io/swagger/v3/parser/test/OpenAPIV3ParserTest.java
index bbff35846b..c412996cd1 100644
--- a/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/test/java/io/swagger/v3/parser/test/OpenAPIV3ParserTest.java
+++ b/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/test/java/io/swagger/v3/parser/test/OpenAPIV3ParserTest.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.math.BigDecimal;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.URL;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashSet;
@@ -2967,6 +2968,17 @@ public void testIssue1540() throws Exception{
         Assert.assertEquals((String)testPutExtensions.get("x-order"),"2147483647");
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testIssue1592() throws Exception {
+        File file = new File("src/test/resources/issue-1592.jar");
+        URL url = new URL("jar:" + file.toURI() + "!/test.yaml");
+        ParseOptions options = new ParseOptions();
+        options.setResolve(true);
+        SwaggerParseResult result = new OpenAPIV3Parser().readLocation(url.toString(), null, options);
+        OpenAPI openAPI = result.getOpenAPI();
+        assertNotNull(openAPI);
+    }
+  
     @Test
     public void testNullExample() throws Exception{
         String yamlString = FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("src/test/resources/null-full-example.yaml"), "UTF-8");
diff --git a/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/test/resources/issue-1592.jar b/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/test/resources/issue-1592.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3bf65fae1f
Binary files /dev/null and b/modules/swagger-parser-v3/src/test/resources/issue-1592.jar differ