diff --git a/pulsar-common/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/common/nar/NarClassLoader.java b/pulsar-common/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/common/nar/NarClassLoader.java
index 321cfe370a7b3..c4864883788d9 100644
--- a/pulsar-common/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/common/nar/NarClassLoader.java
+++ b/pulsar-common/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/common/nar/NarClassLoader.java
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ public class NarClassLoader extends URLClassLoader {
 
     private static final String TMP_DIR_PREFIX = "pulsar-nar";
 
-    public static final String DEFAULT_NAR_EXTRACTION_DIR = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
+    public static final String DEFAULT_NAR_EXTRACTION_DIR = System.getProperty("nar.extraction.tmpdir") != null
+            ? System.getProperty("nar.extraction.tmpdir") : System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
 
     static NarClassLoader getFromArchive(File narPath, Set<String> additionalJars, ClassLoader parent,
                                                 String narExtractionDirectory)