diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Tests/Fixtures/DoctrineLoaderEmbed.php b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Tests/Fixtures/DoctrineLoaderEmbed.php
index 7985b9c4c613..fc16f1cc135b 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Tests/Fixtures/DoctrineLoaderEmbed.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Tests/Fixtures/DoctrineLoaderEmbed.php
@@ -22,4 +22,9 @@ class DoctrineLoaderEmbed
      * @ORM\Column(length=25)
      */
     public $embeddedMaxLength;
+
+    /**
+     * @ORM\Embedded(class=DoctrineLoaderNestedEmbed::class)
+     */
+    public $nestedEmbedded;
 }
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Tests/Fixtures/DoctrineLoaderNestedEmbed.php b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Tests/Fixtures/DoctrineLoaderNestedEmbed.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fbf41555a131
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Tests/Fixtures/DoctrineLoaderNestedEmbed.php
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?php
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of the Symfony package.
+ *
+ * (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code.
+ */
+
+namespace Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Tests\Fixtures;
+
+use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
+
+/**
+ * @ORM\Embeddable()
+ */
+class DoctrineLoaderNestedEmbed
+{
+    /**
+     * @ORM\Column(length=27)
+     */
+    public $nestedEmbeddedMaxLength;
+}
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Tests/Validator/DoctrineLoaderTest.php b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Tests/Validator/DoctrineLoaderTest.php
index c4c0d75fa707..2dcab2533d37 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Tests/Validator/DoctrineLoaderTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Tests/Validator/DoctrineLoaderTest.php
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Tests\Fixtures\BaseUser;
 use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Tests\Fixtures\DoctrineLoaderEmbed;
 use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Tests\Fixtures\DoctrineLoaderEntity;
+use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Tests\Fixtures\DoctrineLoaderNestedEmbed;
 use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Tests\Fixtures\DoctrineLoaderParentEntity;
 use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Validator\Constraints\UniqueEntity;
 use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Validator\DoctrineLoader;
@@ -109,6 +110,20 @@ public function testLoadClassMetadata()
         $this->assertInstanceOf(Length::class, $embeddedMaxLengthConstraints[0]);
         $this->assertSame(25, $embeddedMaxLengthConstraints[0]->max);
 
+        $nestedEmbeddedMetadata = $embeddedClassMetadata->getPropertyMetadata('nestedEmbedded');
+        $this->assertCount(1, $nestedEmbeddedMetadata);
+        $this->assertSame(CascadingStrategy::CASCADE, $nestedEmbeddedMetadata[0]->getCascadingStrategy());
+        $this->assertSame(TraversalStrategy::IMPLICIT, $nestedEmbeddedMetadata[0]->getTraversalStrategy());
+
+        $nestedEmbeddedClassMetadata = $validator->getMetadataFor(new DoctrineLoaderNestedEmbed());
+
+        $nestedEmbeddedMaxLengthMetadata = $nestedEmbeddedClassMetadata->getPropertyMetadata('nestedEmbeddedMaxLength');
+        $this->assertCount(1, $nestedEmbeddedMaxLengthMetadata);
+        $nestedEmbeddedMaxLengthConstraints = $nestedEmbeddedMaxLengthMetadata[0]->getConstraints();
+        $this->assertCount(1, $nestedEmbeddedMaxLengthConstraints);
+        $this->assertInstanceOf(Length::class, $nestedEmbeddedMaxLengthConstraints[0]);
+        $this->assertSame(27, $nestedEmbeddedMaxLengthConstraints[0]->max);
+
         $this->assertCount(0, $classMetadata->getPropertyMetadata('guidField'));
         $this->assertCount(0, $classMetadata->getPropertyMetadata('simpleArrayField'));
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Validator/DoctrineLoader.php b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Validator/DoctrineLoader.php
index 53bf606ac36d..76a2b4d8b028 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Validator/DoctrineLoader.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Validator/DoctrineLoader.php
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ public function loadClassMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata): bool
 
             $constraint = $this->getLengthConstraint($metadata, $mapping['fieldName']);
             if (null === $constraint) {
-                if (isset($mapping['originalClass'])) {
+                if (isset($mapping['originalClass']) && false === strpos($mapping['declaredField'], '.')) {
                     $metadata->addPropertyConstraint($mapping['declaredField'], new Valid());
                 } elseif (property_exists($className, $mapping['fieldName'])) {
                     $metadata->addPropertyConstraint($mapping['fieldName'], new Length(['max' => $mapping['length']]));