diff --git a/dev/src/Command/DocFxCommand.php b/dev/src/Command/DocFxCommand.php
index 8b188fd70f85..8f245c284acb 100644
--- a/dev/src/Command/DocFxCommand.php
+++ b/dev/src/Command/DocFxCommand.php
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
 use Google\Cloud\Dev\DocFx\Page\PageTree;
 use Google\Cloud\Dev\DocFx\Page\OverviewPage;
 use Google\Cloud\Dev\DocFx\XrefValidationTrait;
+use RecursiveDirectoryIterator;
+use RecursiveIteratorIterator;
+use Symfony\Component\Process\Exception\ProcessFailedException;
 
 /**
  * @internal
@@ -147,7 +150,18 @@ protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
             $output->write('Running phpdoc to generate structure.xml... ');
             // Run "phpdoc"
             $process = self::getPhpDocCommand($component->getPath(), $outDir);
-            $process->mustRun();
+            try {
+                $process->mustRun();
+            } catch (ProcessFailedException $ex) {
+                if (false === strpos($process->getErrorOutput(), 'The arguments array must contain 3 items, 0 given')) {
+                    throw $ex;
+                }
+                $output->writeln('<error>Process errored out, applying PHPDoc Tag Escape fix and trying again...</>');
+                $this->applyPhpDocTagEscapeFix($component->getPath());
+                $process->mustRun();
+                $output->write('<info>IT WORKED!</> Reverting Fix... ');
+                $this->applyPhpDocTagEscapeFix($component->getPath(), revert: true);
+            }
             $output->writeln('Done.');
             $xml = $outDir . '/structure.xml';
         }
@@ -345,4 +359,29 @@ private function uploadToStagingBucket(string $outDir, string $stagingBucket): v
         ]);
         $process->mustRun();
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Applies a fix to solve an issue where {@*} is being parsed as a tag by
+     * phpDocumentor, which later causes an error when vprintf sees unescaped
+     * percent signs. Replaces {@*} with "&#42;&#47;" in the files were the
+     * errors occur.
+     *
+     * @see https://github.com/phpDocumentor/ReflectionDocBlock/pull/450
+     * @TODO: Remove this method once the fix is merged and released.
+     */
+    private function applyPhpDocTagEscapeFix(string $componentPath, $revert = false)
+    {
+        $from = $revert ? '&#42;&#47;' : '{@*}';
+        $to = $revert ? '{@*}' : '&#42;&#47;';
+        $dirIter = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($componentPath . '/src', RecursiveDirectoryIterator::SKIP_DOTS);
+        foreach (new RecursiveIteratorIterator($dirIter) as $file) {
+            if ($file->isFile()) {
+                $content = file_get_contents($file->getPathname());
+                // The error only occurs when both "{@*}" and "%" are present
+                if (str_contains($content, $from) && str_contains($content, '%')) {
+                    file_put_contents($file->getPathname(), str_replace($from, $to, $content));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/dev/src/DocFx/Node/DocblockTrait.php b/dev/src/DocFx/Node/DocblockTrait.php
index 93fceab54872..d1c5fc6e8204 100644
--- a/dev/src/DocFx/Node/DocblockTrait.php
+++ b/dev/src/DocFx/Node/DocblockTrait.php
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ public function getContent(): string
         $content = $this->replaceProtoRef($content);
         $content = $this->stripSnippetTag($content);
         $content = $this->addPhpLanguageHintToFencedCodeBlock($content);
+        $content = $this->unescapeDocblockClosingTags($content);
 
         return $content;
     }
@@ -85,4 +86,9 @@ private function stripProtobufGeneratedField(string $content): string
         $regex = '/Generated from protobuf field <code>.*<\/code>\Z/m';
         return rtrim(preg_replace($regex, '', $content));
     }
+
+    private function unescapeDocBlockClosingTags(string $content): string
+    {
+        return str_replace('{@*}', '*/', $content);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/dev/tests/Unit/DocFx/NodeTest.php b/dev/tests/Unit/DocFx/NodeTest.php
index 4e60c5367692..28eef2b2b88b 100644
--- a/dev/tests/Unit/DocFx/NodeTest.php
+++ b/dev/tests/Unit/DocFx/NodeTest.php
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 namespace Google\Cloud\Dev\Tests\Unit\DocFx;
 
 use Google\Cloud\Dev\DocFx\Node\ClassNode;
+use Google\Cloud\Dev\DocFx\Node\DocblockTrait;
 use Google\Cloud\Dev\DocFx\Node\MethodNode;
 use Google\Cloud\Dev\DocFx\Node\XrefTrait;
 use Google\Cloud\Dev\DocFx\Node\FencedCodeBlockTrait;
@@ -561,4 +562,18 @@ public function provideBrokenXrefs()
             [sprintf('{@see \%s::OUTPUT_NORMAL}', OutputInterface::class)], // valid constant
         ];
     }
+
+    public function testEscapeDocblockClosingTags()
+    {
+        $classXml = '<class><full_name>TestClass</full_name><docblock><description>%s</description></docblock></class>';
+
+        $docblock = new class (new SimpleXMLElement(sprintf($classXml, 'the path must match `foo/{@*}bar/{@*}baz`'))) {
+            use DocblockTrait;
+
+            public function __construct(private SimpleXMLElement $xmlNode)
+            {}
+        };
+
+        $this->assertEquals('the path must match `foo/*/bar/*/baz`', $docblock->getContent());
+    }
 }