diff --git a/docs/pages/release_notes.md b/docs/pages/release_notes.md
index c165b42757..0534e9f737 100644
--- a/docs/pages/release_notes.md
+++ b/docs/pages/release_notes.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ This is a {{ site.pmd.release_type }} release.
     * [#2708](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2708): \[java] False positive FinalFieldCouldBeStatic when using lombok Builder.Default
     * [#2738](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2738): \[java] Custom rule with @ExhaustiveEnumSwitch throws NPE
     * [#2756](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2756): \[java] TypeTestUtil fails with NPE for anonymous class
+    * [#2767](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2767): \[java] IndexOutOfBoundsException when parsing an initializer BlockStatement
 
 
 ### API Changes
diff --git a/pmd-java/etc/grammar/Java.jjt b/pmd-java/etc/grammar/Java.jjt
index cafd023dcf..0962322888 100644
--- a/pmd-java/etc/grammar/Java.jjt
+++ b/pmd-java/etc/grammar/Java.jjt
@@ -1997,8 +1997,10 @@ void BlockStatement():
         |
         {
             List<Node> annotationsAndChildren = new ArrayList<Node>();
-            while (jjtree.peekNode() instanceof ASTAnnotation) {
-              annotationsAndChildren.add(jjtree.popNode());
+            if (jjtree.nodeArity() > 0) { // peekNode would throw if the stack is empty
+                while (jjtree.peekNode() instanceof ASTAnnotation) {
+                  annotationsAndChildren.add(jjtree.popNode());
+                }
             }
         }
         LocalVariableDeclaration()
diff --git a/pmd-java/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/ParserCornersTest.java b/pmd-java/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/ParserCornersTest.java
index 83501273fd..4af25e38db 100644
--- a/pmd-java/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/ParserCornersTest.java
+++ b/pmd-java/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/ParserCornersTest.java
@@ -177,6 +177,16 @@ public class ParserCornersTest {
         java8.parseResource("GitHubBug207.java");
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testGitHubBug2767() {
+        // PMD fails to parse an initializer block.
+        // PMD 6.26.0 parses this code just fine.
+        java.withDefaultVersion("15-preview")
+            .parse("class Foo {\n"
+                       + "    {final int I;}\n"
+                       + "}\n");
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testBug206() {
         java8.parse("public @interface Foo {" + "\n"