diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index c32d626dc..328d6723f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ This file documents all notable changes to https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy[IDE
 
 Release with new features and bugfixes:
 
+* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1041[#1041]: native image has globbing active
 
 The full list of changes for this release can be found in https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/milestone/47?closed=1[milestone 2026.07.002].
 
diff --git a/cli/pom.xml b/cli/pom.xml
index 8f7cab824..407560a4a 100644
--- a/cli/pom.xml
+++ b/cli/pom.xml
@@ -266,6 +266,9 @@
                 <arg>--initialize-at-build-time=org.apache.commons</arg>
                 <arg>-H:IncludeResourceBundles=com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.res.XMLErrorResources,com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.msg.XMLMessages
                 </arg>
+                <!-- Disable Windows wildcard expansion so that arguments like "*" (e.g. "ide set-version gradle *")
+                     reach IDEasy verbatim instead of being expanded to file names by the C runtime. -->
+                <buildArg>-H:-EnableWildcardExpansion</buildArg>
               </buildArgs>
             </configuration>
           </plugin>