diff --git a/executor/write_test.go b/executor/write_test.go
index d205b85a246df..d1f633b60d6ce 100644
--- a/executor/write_test.go
+++ b/executor/write_test.go
@@ -1974,6 +1974,24 @@ func TestIssue18681(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, uint16(0), sc.WarningCount())
 }
 
+func TestIssue33298(t *testing.T) {
+	store, clean := testkit.CreateMockStore(t)
+	defer clean()
+	tk := testkit.NewTestKit(t, store)
+	ctx := tk.Session().(sessionctx.Context)
+	defer ctx.SetValue(executor.LoadDataVarKey, nil)
+
+	tk.MustExec("use test")
+	tk.MustExec("drop table if exists load_data_test")
+	tk.MustExec("create table load_data_test (a varchar(10), b varchar(10))")
+
+	// According to https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/load-data.html , fixed-row format should be used when fields
+	// terminated by '' and enclosed by ''. However, tidb doesn't support it yet and empty terminator leads to infinite
+	// loop in `indexOfTerminator` (see https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues/33298).
+	require.Error(t, tk.ExecToErr("load data local infile '/tmp/nonexistence.csv' into table load_data_test fields terminated by ''"))
+	require.Error(t, tk.ExecToErr("load data local infile '/tmp/nonexistence.csv' into table load_data_test fields terminated by '' enclosed by ''"))
+}
+
 func TestLoadData(t *testing.T) {
 	trivialMsg := "Records: 1  Deleted: 0  Skipped: 0  Warnings: 0"
 	store, clean := testkit.CreateMockStore(t)
diff --git a/planner/core/planbuilder.go b/planner/core/planbuilder.go
index 0da9f93dee9d8..c7759f3c8e5a5 100644
--- a/planner/core/planbuilder.go
+++ b/planner/core/planbuilder.go
@@ -3913,6 +3913,10 @@ func (b *PlanBuilder) buildSelectPlanOfInsert(ctx context.Context, insert *ast.I
 }
 
 func (b *PlanBuilder) buildLoadData(ctx context.Context, ld *ast.LoadDataStmt) (Plan, error) {
+	// quick fix for https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues/33298
+	if ld.FieldsInfo != nil && len(ld.FieldsInfo.Terminated) == 0 {
+		return nil, ErrNotSupportedYet.GenWithStackByArgs("load data with empty field terminator")
+	}
 	p := LoadData{
 		IsLocal:            ld.IsLocal,
 		OnDuplicate:        ld.OnDuplicate,