diff --git a/gix-object/src/tree/ref_iter.rs b/gix-object/src/tree/ref_iter.rs
index c18a0d5f532..510ae34b997 100644
--- a/gix-object/src/tree/ref_iter.rs
+++ b/gix-object/src/tree/ref_iter.rs
@@ -101,12 +101,15 @@ impl TryFrom<u32> for tree::EntryMode {
     fn try_from(mode: u32) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
         Ok(match mode {
             0o40000 => tree::EntryMode::Tree,
-            0o100644 => tree::EntryMode::Blob,
-            0o100755 => tree::EntryMode::BlobExecutable,
             0o120000 => tree::EntryMode::Link,
             0o160000 => tree::EntryMode::Commit,
-            0o100664 => tree::EntryMode::Blob, // rare and found in the linux kernel
-            0o100640 => tree::EntryMode::Blob, // rare and found in the Rust repo
+            blob_mode if blob_mode & 0o100000 == 0o100000 => {
+                if blob_mode & 0o000100 == 0o000100 {
+                    tree::EntryMode::BlobExecutable
+                } else {
+                    tree::EntryMode::Blob
+                }
+            }
             _ => return Err(mode),
         })
     }
diff --git a/gix-object/tests/fixtures/tree/special-5.tree b/gix-object/tests/fixtures/tree/special-5.tree
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..67843b90078
Binary files /dev/null and b/gix-object/tests/fixtures/tree/special-5.tree differ
diff --git a/gix-object/tests/tree/mod.rs b/gix-object/tests/tree/mod.rs
index 27a6352a36a..e06984d77ea 100644
--- a/gix-object/tests/tree/mod.rs
+++ b/gix-object/tests/tree/mod.rs
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ mod from_bytes {
             ("special-2", 18),
             ("special-3", 5),
             ("special-4", 18),
+            ("special-5", 17),
         ] {
             let fixture = fixture_name("tree", &format!("{name}.tree"));
             assert_eq!(