diff --git a/tests/multimodal/test_utils.py b/tests/multimodal/test_utils.py
index 41f4773a11c8d..ea964a54383c9 100644
--- a/tests/multimodal/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/multimodal/test_utils.py
@@ -148,6 +148,32 @@ async def test_fetch_image_local_files(image_url: str):
                 f"file://{temp_dir}/../{os.path.basename(image_url)}")
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_fetch_image_local_files_with_space_in_name():
+    image_url = TEST_IMAGE_URLS[0]
+    connector = MediaConnector()
+
+    with TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:
+        local_connector = MediaConnector(allowed_local_media_path=temp_dir)
+
+        origin_image = connector.fetch_image(image_url)
+        filename = "file name with space.jpg"
+        origin_image.save(os.path.join(temp_dir, filename),
+                          quality=100,
+                          icc_profile=origin_image.info.get('icc_profile'))
+
+        try:
+            image_async = await local_connector.fetch_image_async(
+                f"file://{temp_dir}/{filename}")
+            image_sync = local_connector.fetch_image(
+                f"file://{temp_dir}/{filename}")
+        except FileNotFoundError as e:
+            pytest.fail(
+                "Failed to fetch image with space in name: {}".format(e))
+        # Check that the images are equal
+        assert not ImageChops.difference(image_sync, image_async).getbbox()
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_fetch_image_error_conversion():
     connector = MediaConnector()
diff --git a/vllm/multimodal/utils.py b/vllm/multimodal/utils.py
index 3b01ee7ad4a4b..f914d0dc6c5e7 100644
--- a/vllm/multimodal/utils.py
+++ b/vllm/multimodal/utils.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from itertools import groupby
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Optional, TypeVar, Union
 from urllib.parse import ParseResult, urlparse
+from urllib.request import url2pathname
 
 import numpy as np
 import numpy.typing as npt
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ class MediaConnector:
             raise RuntimeError("Cannot load local files without "
                                "`--allowed-local-media-path`.")
 
-        filepath = Path(url_spec.path)
+        filepath = Path(url2pathname(url_spec.path))
         if allowed_local_media_path not in filepath.resolve().parents:
             raise ValueError(
                 f"The file path {filepath} must be a subpath "