diff --git a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/hadoop/PutHDFS.java b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/hadoop/PutHDFS.java
index 6e71331fee..7ac14b1843 100644
--- a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/hadoop/PutHDFS.java
+++ b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/hadoop/PutHDFS.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package org.apache.nifi.processors.hadoop;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsCreateModes;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsPermission;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.CompressionCodec;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException;
@@ -148,7 +149,8 @@ public class PutHDFS extends AbstractHadoopProcessor {
     public static final PropertyDescriptor UMASK = new PropertyDescriptor.Builder()
             .name("Permissions umask")
             .description(
-                    "A umask represented as an octal number which determines the permissions of files written to HDFS. This overrides the Hadoop Configuration dfs.umaskmode")
+                   "A umask represented as an octal number which determines the permissions of files written to HDFS. "
+                   + "If this property is empty, processor uses fs.permission.umask-mode. If fs.permission.umask-mode is undefined, processor honors FsPermission.DEFAULT_UMASK.")
             .addValidator(HadoopValidators.UMASK_VALIDATOR)
             .build();
 
@@ -208,9 +210,8 @@ public class PutHDFS extends AbstractHadoopProcessor {
         if (umaskProp.isSet()) {
             dfsUmask = Short.parseShort(umaskProp.getValue(), 8);
         } else {
-            dfsUmask = FsPermission.DEFAULT_UMASK;
+            dfsUmask = FsPermission.getUMask(config).toShort();
         }
-
         FsPermission.setUMask(config, new FsPermission(dfsUmask));
     }
 
@@ -223,6 +224,7 @@ public class PutHDFS extends AbstractHadoopProcessor {
 
         final FileSystem hdfs = getFileSystem();
         final Configuration configuration = getConfiguration();
+
         final UserGroupInformation ugi = getUserGroupInformation();
 
         if (configuration == null || hdfs == null || ugi == null) {
diff --git a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/test/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/hadoop/PutHDFSTest.java b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/test/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/hadoop/PutHDFSTest.java
index 2334730af4..6f74766ae8 100644
--- a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/test/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/hadoop/PutHDFSTest.java
+++ b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/test/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/hadoop/PutHDFSTest.java
@@ -368,6 +368,59 @@ public class PutHDFSTest {
         runner.assertNotValid();
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testPutFilePermissionsWithProcessorConfiguredUmask() throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+        // assert the file permission is the same value as processor's property
+        PutHDFS proc = new TestablePutHDFS(kerberosProperties, mockFileSystem);
+        TestRunner runner = TestRunners.newTestRunner(proc);
+        runner.setProperty(PutHDFS.DIRECTORY, "target/test-classes");
+        runner.setProperty(PutHDFS.CONFLICT_RESOLUTION, "replace");
+        runner.setProperty(PutHDFS.UMASK, "777");
+        try (FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("src/test/resources/testdata/randombytes-1")) {
+            Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<>();
+            attributes.put(CoreAttributes.FILENAME.key(), "randombytes-1");
+            runner.enqueue(fis, attributes);
+            runner.run();
+        }
+        assertEquals(FsPermission.getFileDefault().applyUMask(new FsPermission("777")), mockFileSystem.getFileStatus(new Path("target/test-classes/randombytes-1")).getPermission());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testPutFilePermissionsWithXmlConfiguredUmask() throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+        // assert the file permission is the same value as xml
+        PutHDFS proc = new TestablePutHDFS(kerberosProperties, mockFileSystem);
+        TestRunner runner = TestRunners.newTestRunner(proc);
+        runner.setProperty(PutHDFS.DIRECTORY, "target/test-classes");
+        runner.setProperty(PutHDFS.CONFLICT_RESOLUTION, "replace");
+        runner.setProperty(PutHDFS.HADOOP_CONFIGURATION_RESOURCES, "src/test/resources/core-site-perms.xml");
+        try (FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("src/test/resources/testdata/randombytes-1")) {
+            Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<>();
+            attributes.put(CoreAttributes.FILENAME.key(), "randombytes-1");
+            runner.enqueue(fis, attributes);
+            runner.run();
+        }
+        assertEquals(FsPermission.getFileDefault().applyUMask(new FsPermission("777")), mockFileSystem.getFileStatus(new Path("target/test-classes/randombytes-1")).getPermission());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testPutFIlePermissionsWithNoConfiguredUmask() throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+        // assert the file permission fallback works. It should read FsPermission.DEFAULT_UMASK
+        PutHDFS proc = new TestablePutHDFS(kerberosProperties, mockFileSystem);
+        TestRunner runner = TestRunners.newTestRunner(proc);
+        runner.setProperty(PutHDFS.DIRECTORY, "target/test-classes");
+        runner.setProperty(PutHDFS.CONFLICT_RESOLUTION, "replace");
+        try (FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("src/test/resources/testdata/randombytes-1")) {
+            Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<>();
+            attributes.put(CoreAttributes.FILENAME.key(), "randombytes-1");
+            runner.enqueue(fis, attributes);
+            runner.run();
+        }
+        assertEquals(
+            FsPermission.getFileDefault().applyUMask(new FsPermission((short)FsPermission.DEFAULT_UMASK)),
+            mockFileSystem.getFileStatus(new Path("target/test-classes/randombytes-1")).getPermission()
+            );
+    }
+
     private class TestablePutHDFS extends PutHDFS {
 
         private KerberosProperties testKerberosProperties;
@@ -410,7 +463,7 @@ public class PutHDFSTest {
         @Override
         public FSDataOutputStream create(final Path f, final FsPermission permission, final boolean overwrite, final int bufferSize, final short replication,
                                          final long blockSize, final Progressable progress) {
-            pathToStatus.put(f, newFile(f));
+            pathToStatus.put(f, newFile(f, permission));
             return new FSDataOutputStream(new ByteArrayOutputStream(), new Statistics(""));
         }
 
@@ -477,8 +530,8 @@ public class PutHDFSTest {
             return pathToStatus.containsKey(f);
         }
 
-        private FileStatus newFile(Path p) {
-            return new FileStatus(100L, false, 3, 128 * 1024 * 1024, 1523456000000L, 1523457000000L, perms((short) 0644), "owner", "group", p);
+        private FileStatus newFile(Path p, FsPermission permission) {
+            return new FileStatus(100L, false, 3, 128 * 1024 * 1024, 1523456000000L, 1523457000000L, permission, "owner", "group", p);
         }
 
         private FileStatus newDir(Path p) {
diff --git a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/test/resources/core-site-perms.xml b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/test/resources/core-site-perms.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9ea36254a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/test/resources/core-site-perms.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<!-- Put site-specific property overrides in this file. -->
+
+<configuration>
+    <property>
+        <name>fs.defaultFS</name>
+        <value>file:///</value>
+    </property>
+    <property>
+        <name>fs.permissions.umask-mode</name>
+        <value>777</value>
+    </property>
+</configuration>