diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c90596c5f5..8892a5827a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
-### Features
-
-- Add captureProfile method to hub and client ([#2290](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/2290))
-
 ### Fixes
 
 - Ensure potential callback exceptions are caught #2123 ([#2291](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/2291))
 - Remove verbose FrameMetricsAggregator failure logging ([#2293](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/2293))
+- Ignore broken regex for tracePropagationTarget ([#2288](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/2288))
+
+### Features
+
+- Add captureProfile method to hub and client ([#2290](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/2290))
 
 ## 6.5.0
 
diff --git a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/TracePropagationTargets.java b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/TracePropagationTargets.java
index 3425642854..d910c4fafa 100644
--- a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/TracePropagationTargets.java
+++ b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/TracePropagationTargets.java
@@ -15,9 +15,16 @@ public static boolean contain(final @NotNull List<String> origins, final @NotNul
       return false;
     }
     for (final String origin : origins) {
-      if (url.contains(origin) || url.matches(origin)) {
+      if (url.contains(origin)) {
         return true;
       }
+      try {
+        if (url.matches(origin)) {
+          return true;
+        }
+      } catch (Exception e) {
+        // ignore invalid regex
+      }
     }
     return false;
   }
diff --git a/sentry/src/test/java/io/sentry/TracePropagationTargetsTest.kt b/sentry/src/test/java/io/sentry/TracePropagationTargetsTest.kt
index 60eb178723..a2d49b41f0 100644
--- a/sentry/src/test/java/io/sentry/TracePropagationTargetsTest.kt
+++ b/sentry/src/test/java/io/sentry/TracePropagationTargetsTest.kt
@@ -26,4 +26,9 @@ class TracePropagationTargetsTest {
     fun `when no origins are defined, returns false for every url`() {
         assertFalse(TracePropagationTargets.contain(emptyList(), "http://some.api.com/"))
     }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `ignores broken regex`() {
+        assertFalse(TracePropagationTargets.contain(listOf("AABB???"), "http://some.api.com/"))
+    }
 }