diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 77b725fa3c..baf11ee6c0 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Merged from 4.0:
 Merged from 3.11:
  * Fix the capital P usage in the CQL parser (CASSANDRA-17919)
 Merged from 3.0:
+ * Validate the existence of a datacenter in nodetool rebuild (CASSANDRA-14319)
  * Suppress CVE-2023-2251 (CASSANDRA-18497)
  * Do not remove SSTables when cause of FSReadError is OutOfMemoryError while using best_effort disk failure policy (CASSANDRA-18336)
  * Do not remove truncated_at entry in system.local while dropping an index (CASSANDRA-18105)
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageService.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageService.java
index 92c31c1f7a..87cfbac046 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageService.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageService.java
@@ -1363,10 +1363,29 @@ public class StorageService extends NotificationBroadcasterSupport implements IE
 
     public void rebuild(String sourceDc, String keyspace, String tokens, String specificSources)
     {
-        // check ongoing rebuild
-        if (!isRebuilding.compareAndSet(false, true))
+        try
         {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("Node is still rebuilding. Check nodetool netstats.");
+            // check ongoing rebuild
+            if (!isRebuilding.compareAndSet(false, true))
+            {
+                throw new IllegalStateException("Node is still rebuilding. Check nodetool netstats.");
+            }
+
+            if (sourceDc != null)
+            {
+                TokenMetadata.Topology topology = getTokenMetadata().cloneOnlyTokenMap().getTopology();
+                Set<String> availableDCs = topology.getDatacenterEndpoints().keySet();
+                if (!availableDCs.contains(sourceDc))
+                {
+                    throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format("Provided datacenter '%s' is not a valid datacenter, available datacenters are: %s",
+                                                                     sourceDc, String.join(",", availableDCs)));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        catch (Throwable ex)
+        {
+            isRebuilding.set(false);
+            throw ex;
         }
 
         try
diff --git a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageServiceTest.java b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageServiceTest.java
index 694c876732..e4589d66e0 100644
--- a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageServiceTest.java
+++ b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageServiceTest.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package org.apache.cassandra.service;
 import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledFuture;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMultimap;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
@@ -40,12 +41,15 @@ import org.apache.cassandra.locator.InetAddressAndPort;
 import org.apache.cassandra.locator.Replica;
 import org.apache.cassandra.locator.ReplicaCollection;
 import org.apache.cassandra.locator.ReplicaMultimap;
+import org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSnitch;
 import org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy;
 import org.apache.cassandra.locator.TokenMetadata;
+import org.mockito.Mockito;
 
 import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.MINUTES;
 import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.SECONDS;
 import static org.awaitility.Awaitility.await;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
@@ -198,4 +202,57 @@ public class StorageServiceTest
         // fast tasks are shut down as part of the Runtime shutdown hook.
         assertFalse(ScheduledExecutors.scheduledFastTasks.isTerminated());
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testRebuildFailOnNonExistingDatacenter()
+    {
+        String nonExistentDC = "NON_EXISTENT_DC";
+
+        try
+        {
+            getStorageService().rebuild(nonExistentDC, "StorageServiceTest", null, null);
+            fail();
+        }
+        catch (IllegalArgumentException ex)
+        {
+            Assert.assertEquals(String.format("Provided datacenter '%s' is not a valid datacenter, available datacenters are: %s",
+                                              nonExistentDC,
+                                              SimpleSnitch.DATA_CENTER_NAME),
+                                ex.getMessage());
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testRebuildingWithTokensWithoutKeyspace() throws Exception
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            getStorageService().rebuild("datacenter1", null, "123", null);
+            fail();
+        }
+        catch (IllegalArgumentException ex)
+        {
+            assertEquals("Cannot specify tokens without keyspace.", ex.getMessage());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private StorageService getStorageService()
+    {
+        ImmutableMultimap.Builder<String, InetAddressAndPort> builder = ImmutableMultimap.builder();
+        builder.put(SimpleSnitch.DATA_CENTER_NAME, aAddress);
+
+        TokenMetadata.Topology tokenMetadataTopology = Mockito.mock(TokenMetadata.Topology.class);
+        Mockito.when(tokenMetadataTopology.getDatacenterEndpoints()).thenReturn(builder.build());
+
+        TokenMetadata metadata = new TokenMetadata(new SimpleSnitch());
+        TokenMetadata spiedMetadata = Mockito.spy(metadata);
+
+        Mockito.when(spiedMetadata.getTopology()).thenReturn(tokenMetadataTopology);
+
+        StorageService spiedStorageService = Mockito.spy(StorageService.instance);
+        Mockito.when(spiedStorageService.getTokenMetadata()).thenReturn(spiedMetadata);
+        Mockito.when(spiedMetadata.cloneOnlyTokenMap()).thenReturn(spiedMetadata);
+
+        return spiedStorageService;
+    }
 }