diff --git a/clang/include/clang/Basic/JsonSupport.h b/clang/include/clang/Basic/JsonSupport.h
--- a/clang/include/clang/Basic/JsonSupport.h
+++ b/clang/include/clang/Basic/JsonSupport.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 #include "clang/Basic/SourceManager.h"
 #include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
-
+#include <iterator>
 
 namespace clang {
 
@@ -98,7 +98,16 @@
     if (AddBraces)
       Out << "{ ";
     std::string filename(PLoc.getFilename());
-#ifdef _WIN32 // Handle windows-specific path delimiters.
+#ifdef _WIN32
+    // Remove forbidden Windows path characters
+    auto RemoveIt =
+        std::remove_if(filename.begin(), filename.end(), [](auto Char) {
+          static const char ForbiddenChars[] = "<>*?\"|";
+          return std::find(std::begin(ForbiddenChars), std::end(ForbiddenChars),
+                           Char) != std::end(ForbiddenChars);
+        });
+    filename.erase(RemoveIt, filename.end());
+    // Handle windows-specific path delimiters.
     std::replace(filename.begin(), filename.end(), '\\', '/');
 #endif
     Out << "\"line\": " << PLoc.getLine()
diff --git a/clang/test/Analysis/exploded-graph-rewriter/win_path_forbidden_chars.cpp b/clang/test/Analysis/exploded-graph-rewriter/win_path_forbidden_chars.cpp
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang/test/Analysis/exploded-graph-rewriter/win_path_forbidden_chars.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// FIXME: Figure out how to use %clang_analyze_cc1 with our lit.local.cfg.
+// RUN: %clang_cc1 -analyze -triple x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu \
+// RUN:                     -analyzer-checker=core \
+// RUN:                     -analyzer-dump-egraph=%t.dot %s
+// RUN: %exploded_graph_rewriter --verbose %t.dot 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
+// REQUIRES: asserts
+// UNSUPPORTED: !windows
+
+// Angle brackets shall not be presented in the field `file`,
+// because exploded_graph_rewriter handles it as a file path
+// and such symbols are forbidden on Windows platform.
+
+void test() {
+  // This produces angle brackets.
+  char text[] = __FILE__;
+}
+
+// This test is passed if exploded_graph_rewriter handles dot file without errors.
+// CHECK: DEBUG:root:Line: digraph "Exploded Graph"
+// CHECK: \"file\": \"scratch space\"