diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/XmlReaderCaster.php b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/XmlReaderCaster.php
index 19bf6a3d5e1b5..e7a0f64af5ee9 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/XmlReaderCaster.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Caster/XmlReaderCaster.php
@@ -44,6 +44,22 @@ class XmlReaderCaster
 
     public static function castXmlReader(\XMLReader $reader, array $a, Stub $stub, $isNested)
     {
+        try {
+            $properties = [
+                'LOADDTD' => @$reader->getParserProperty(\XMLReader::LOADDTD),
+                'DEFAULTATTRS' => @$reader->getParserProperty(\XMLReader::DEFAULTATTRS),
+                'VALIDATE' => @$reader->getParserProperty(\XMLReader::VALIDATE),
+                'SUBST_ENTITIES' => @$reader->getParserProperty(\XMLReader::SUBST_ENTITIES),
+            ];
+        } catch (\Error $e) {
+            $properties = [
+                'LOADDTD' => false,
+                'DEFAULTATTRS' => false,
+                'VALIDATE' => false,
+                'SUBST_ENTITIES' => false,
+            ];
+        }
+
         $props = Caster::PREFIX_VIRTUAL.'parserProperties';
         $info = [
             'localName' => $reader->localName,
@@ -57,12 +73,7 @@ public static function castXmlReader(\XMLReader $reader, array $a, Stub $stub, $
             'value' => $reader->value,
             'namespaceURI' => $reader->namespaceURI,
             'baseURI' => $reader->baseURI ? new LinkStub($reader->baseURI) : $reader->baseURI,
-            $props => [
-                'LOADDTD' => $reader->getParserProperty(\XMLReader::LOADDTD),
-                'DEFAULTATTRS' => $reader->getParserProperty(\XMLReader::DEFAULTATTRS),
-                'VALIDATE' => $reader->getParserProperty(\XMLReader::VALIDATE),
-                'SUBST_ENTITIES' => $reader->getParserProperty(\XMLReader::SUBST_ENTITIES),
-            ],
+            $props => $properties,
         ];
 
         if ($info[$props] = Caster::filter($info[$props], Caster::EXCLUDE_EMPTY, [], $count)) {
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Tests/Caster/XmlReaderCasterTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Tests/Caster/XmlReaderCasterTest.php
index 8c0bc6ec7c272..f109caba82f75 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Tests/Caster/XmlReaderCasterTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Tests/Caster/XmlReaderCasterTest.php
@@ -245,4 +245,18 @@ public function provideNodes()
             ],
         ];
     }
+
+    public function testWithUninitializedXMLReader()
+    {
+        $this->reader = new \XmlReader();
+
+        $expectedDump = <<<'EODUMP'
+XMLReader {
+  +nodeType: NONE
+   …13
+}
+EODUMP;
+
+        $this->assertDumpMatchesFormat($expectedDump, $this->reader);
+    }
 }