diff --git a/common/network-common/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/network/util/JavaUtilsSuite.java b/common/network-common/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/network/util/JavaUtilsSuite.java
index 64edc0edae6f3..78a68a6622546 100644
--- a/common/network-common/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/network/util/JavaUtilsSuite.java
+++ b/common/network-common/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/network/util/JavaUtilsSuite.java
@@ -90,4 +90,25 @@ public void testListFiles() throws IOException {
     assertEquals(1, JavaUtils.listFiles(symlink).size());
     assertEquals(1, JavaUtils.listPaths(symlink).size());
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testCheckArgumentUsesMessageVerbatim() {
+    // The no-varargs overload must not run the message through String.format: a '%' in the
+    // message is preserved rather than interpreted as a (here invalid) format conversion, which
+    // would otherwise throw an IllegalFormatException and mask the intended error.
+    String msg = "invalid value: 100% done, %d unparsed";
+    assertDoesNotThrow(() -> JavaUtils.checkArgument(true, msg));
+    IllegalArgumentException e = assertThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class,
+      () -> JavaUtils.checkArgument(false, msg));
+    assertEquals(msg, e.getMessage());
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testCheckStateUsesMessageVerbatim() {
+    String msg = "bad state: 50% done, %s missing";
+    assertDoesNotThrow(() -> JavaUtils.checkState(true, msg));
+    IllegalStateException e = assertThrows(IllegalStateException.class,
+      () -> JavaUtils.checkState(false, msg));
+    assertEquals(msg, e.getMessage());
+  }
 }
diff --git a/common/utils-java/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/network/util/JavaUtils.java b/common/utils-java/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/network/util/JavaUtils.java
index 2cf4570488ee0..acd9d188a9399 100644
--- a/common/utils-java/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/network/util/JavaUtils.java
+++ b/common/utils-java/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/network/util/JavaUtils.java
@@ -760,6 +760,29 @@ public static void checkArgument(boolean check, String msg, Object... args) {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Throws an {@link IllegalArgumentException} with the given message if {@code check} is
+   * {@code false}.
+   *
+   * <p>Unlike {@link #checkArgument(boolean, String, Object...)}, {@code msg} is used verbatim and
+   * is <b>not</b> passed through {@link String#format(String, Object...)}. Prefer this overload
+   * whenever the message is a fixed string or is assembled by the caller (for example by
+   * concatenation): the message may then contain {@code %} characters without risking a
+   * {@link java.util.IllegalFormatException} that would mask the intended error, and no format
+   * arguments array is allocated. Use the varargs overload only when there are values to
+   * interpolate, passing them as arguments (e.g. {@code checkArgument(cond, "bad key: %s", key)})
+   * rather than concatenating them into {@code msg}.
+   *
+   * @param check the condition that must hold; an exception is thrown when it is {@code false}
+   * @param msg   the failure message, used exactly as given
+   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code check} is {@code false}
+   */
+  public static void checkArgument(boolean check, String msg) {
+    if (!check) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException(msg);
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * Throws IllegalStateException with the given message if the check is false.
    * Keep this clone of CommandBuilderUtils.checkState synced with the original.
@@ -770,6 +793,24 @@ public static void checkState(boolean check, String msg, Object... args) {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Throws an {@link IllegalStateException} with the given message if {@code check} is
+   * {@code false}.
+   *
+   * <p>Unlike {@link #checkState(boolean, String, Object...)}, {@code msg} is used verbatim and is
+   * <b>not</b> passed through {@link String#format(String, Object...)}; see
+   * {@link #checkArgument(boolean, String)} for when to prefer this form over the varargs one.
+   *
+   * @param check the condition that must hold; an exception is thrown when it is {@code false}
+   * @param msg   the failure message, used exactly as given
+   * @throws IllegalStateException if {@code check} is {@code false}
+   */
+  public static void checkState(boolean check, String msg) {
+    if (!check) {
+      throw new IllegalStateException(msg);
+    }
+  }
+
   private static final HexFormat LOWERCASE_HEX = HexFormat.of();
 
   /**