diff --git a/apply.c b/apply.c
index 3d69fec836d..3b090652cf2 100644
--- a/apply.c
+++ b/apply.c
@@ -3778,8 +3778,14 @@ static int check_preimage(struct apply_state *state,
 		return error_errno("%s", old_name);
 	}
 
-	if (!state->cached && !previous)
-		st_mode = ce_mode_from_stat(*ce, st->st_mode);
+	if (!state->cached && !previous) {
+		if (!trust_executable_bit)
+			st_mode = (*ce && (*ce)->ce_mode) ? (*ce)->ce_mode :
+				(state->apply_in_reverse
+				 ? patch->new_mode : patch->old_mode);
+		else
+			st_mode = ce_mode_from_stat(*ce, st->st_mode);
+	}
 
 	if (patch->is_new < 0)
 		patch->is_new = 0;
diff --git a/t/t4129-apply-samemode.sh b/t/t4129-apply-samemode.sh
index e7a7295f1b6..e7026507dc0 100755
--- a/t/t4129-apply-samemode.sh
+++ b/t/t4129-apply-samemode.sh
@@ -101,4 +101,31 @@ test_expect_success POSIXPERM 'do not use core.sharedRepository for working tree
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'git apply respects core.fileMode' '
+	test_config core.fileMode false &&
+	echo true >script.sh &&
+	git add --chmod=+x script.sh &&
+	git ls-files -s script.sh >ls-files-output &&
+	test_grep "^100755" ls-files-output &&
+	test_tick && git commit -m "Add script" &&
+	git ls-tree -r HEAD script.sh >ls-tree-output &&
+	test_grep "^100755" ls-tree-output &&
+
+	echo true >>script.sh &&
+	test_tick && git commit -m "Modify script" script.sh &&
+	git format-patch -1 --stdout >patch &&
+	test_grep "^index.*100755$" patch &&
+
+	git switch -c branch HEAD^ &&
+	git apply --index patch 2>err &&
+	test_grep ! "has type 100644, expected 100755" err &&
+	git reset --hard &&
+
+	git apply patch 2>err &&
+	test_grep ! "has type 100644, expected 100755" err &&
+
+	git apply --cached patch 2>err &&
+	test_grep ! "has type 100644, expected 100755" err
+'
+
 test_done