diff --git a/src/glyph/TTFGlyph.js b/src/glyph/TTFGlyph.js
index 8dc1c75b..43329e66 100644
--- a/src/glyph/TTFGlyph.js
+++ b/src/glyph/TTFGlyph.js
@@ -74,8 +74,14 @@ export default class TTFGlyph extends Glyph {
       return this.path.cbox;
     }
 
+    let glyfPos = this._font.loca.offsets[this.id];
+    let nextPos = this._font.loca.offsets[this.id + 1];
+
+    // Return an empty bounding box if there is no data for this glyph
+    if (glyfPos === nextPos) { return Object.freeze(new BBox(0, 0, 0, 0)); }
+
     let stream = this._font._getTableStream('glyf');
-    stream.pos += this._font.loca.offsets[this.id];
+    stream.pos += glyfPos;
     let glyph = GlyfHeader.decode(stream);
 
     let cbox = new BBox(glyph.xMin, glyph.yMin, glyph.xMax, glyph.yMax);
diff --git a/test/issues.js b/test/issues.js
index ed3d5d5f..66e40e8e 100644
--- a/test/issues.js
+++ b/test/issues.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import * as fontkit from 'fontkit';
+import assert from 'assert';
 
 describe('issues', function () {
     describe('#282 - ReferenceError: Cannot access \'c3x\' before initialization', function () {
@@ -10,4 +11,20 @@ describe('issues', function () {
             glyph.path;
         });
     });
+
+    describe('#353 - reading the cbox of an empty glyph', function () {
+        it('returns an empty box instead of reading past the glyph data', function () {
+            let font = fontkit.openSync(new URL('data/OpenSans/OpenSans-Regular.ttf', import.meta.url));
+
+            let glyph = font.glyphForCodePoint(0x20); // space: no outline, empty glyf entry
+
+            // Before the fix this read the following glyph's header (a positive-area
+            // box), or ran past the buffer for a trailing empty glyph. An empty
+            // glyph has no extent. Asserting "no positive extent" rather than exact
+            // zeros so the test holds whether the empty box is (0,0,0,0) or the
+            // BBox sentinel.
+            let cbox = glyph.cbox;
+            assert.ok(cbox.width <= 0 && cbox.height <= 0);
+        });
+    });
 });