diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/literals.scala b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/literals.scala
index 79b2985adc1d..6c72afae91e9 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/literals.scala
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/literals.scala
@@ -243,7 +243,9 @@ object Literal {
           v.isInstanceOf[InternalRow] && {
             val row = v.asInstanceOf[InternalRow]
             st.fields.map(_.dataType).zipWithIndex.forall {
-              case (fieldDataType, i) => doValidate(row.get(i, fieldDataType), fieldDataType)
+              case (fieldDataType, i) =>
+                // Do not need to validate null values.
+                row.isNullAt(i) || doValidate(row.get(i, fieldDataType), fieldDataType)
             }
           }
         case _ => false
diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/LiteralExpressionSuite.scala b/sql/catalyst/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/LiteralExpressionSuite.scala
index f63b60f5ebba..d42e0b7d681d 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/LiteralExpressionSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/LiteralExpressionSuite.scala
@@ -478,6 +478,24 @@ class LiteralExpressionSuite extends SparkFunSuite with ExpressionEvalHelper {
       UTF8String.fromString("Spark SQL"))
   }
 
+  // A generic internal row that throws exception when accessing null values
+  class NullAccessForbiddenGenericInternalRow(override val values: Array[Any])
+    extends GenericInternalRow(values) {
+    override def get(ordinal: Int, dataType: DataType): AnyRef = {
+      if (values(ordinal) == null) {
+        throw new RuntimeException(s"Should not access null field at $ordinal!")
+      }
+      super.get(ordinal, dataType)
+    }
+  }
+
+  test("SPARK-46634: literal validation should not drill down to null fields") {
+    val exceptionInternalRow = new NullAccessForbiddenGenericInternalRow(Array(null, 1))
+    val schema = StructType.fromDDL("id INT, age INT")
+    // This should not fail because it should check whether the field is null before drilling down
+    Literal.validateLiteralValue(exceptionInternalRow, schema)
+  }
+
   test("SPARK-46604: Literal support immutable ArraySeq") {
     import org.apache.spark.util.ArrayImplicits._
     val immArraySeq = Array(1.0, 4.0).toImmutableArraySeq