diff --git a/framework/CHANGELOG.md b/framework/CHANGELOG.md
index 42ce39634cd..13fb6e3d93b 100644
--- a/framework/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/framework/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Yii Framework 2 Change Log
 - Bug #20002: Fixed superfluous query on HEAD request in serializer (xicond)
 - Enh #12743: Added new methods `BaseActiveRecord::loadRelations()` and `BaseActiveRecord::loadRelationsFor()` to eager load related models for existing primary model instances (PowerGamer1)
 - Enh #20030: Improve performance of handling `ErrorHandler::$memoryReserveSize` (antonshevelev, rob006)
+- Enh #20042: Add empty array check to `ActiveQueryTrait::findWith()` (renkas)
 - Enh #20032: Added `mask` method for string masking with multibyte support (salehhashemi1992)
 
 
diff --git a/framework/db/ActiveQueryTrait.php b/framework/db/ActiveQueryTrait.php
index e2de1dd12d9..d49fa0fba87 100644
--- a/framework/db/ActiveQueryTrait.php
+++ b/framework/db/ActiveQueryTrait.php
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ protected function createModels($rows)
      */
     public function findWith($with, &$models)
     {
+        if (empty($models)) {
+            return;
+        }
+
         $primaryModel = reset($models);
         if (!$primaryModel instanceof ActiveRecordInterface) {
             /* @var $modelClass ActiveRecordInterface */