diff --git a/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
index fc96ccb992ed7..e9c4010665b7c 100644
--- a/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -205,6 +205,9 @@ Bug Fixes in This Version
 - For function multi-versioning using the ``target`` or ``target_clones``
   attributes, remove comdat for internal linkage functions.
   (`#65114 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/65114>`_)
+- Clang now reports ``-Wformat`` for bool value and char specifier confusion
+  in scanf. Fixes
+  (`#64987 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/64987>`_)
 
 Bug Fixes to Compiler Builtins
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/clang/lib/AST/FormatString.cpp b/clang/lib/AST/FormatString.cpp
index f86278e4b5163..e0c9e18cfe3a2 100644
--- a/clang/lib/AST/FormatString.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/AST/FormatString.cpp
@@ -368,8 +368,11 @@ ArgType::matchesType(ASTContext &C, QualType argTy) const {
         case BuiltinType::SChar:
         case BuiltinType::UChar:
         case BuiltinType::Char_U:
+            return Match;
         case BuiltinType::Bool:
-          return Match;
+          if (!Ptr)
+            return Match;
+          break;
         }
         // "Partially matched" because of promotions?
         if (!Ptr) {
@@ -410,11 +413,14 @@ ArgType::matchesType(ASTContext &C, QualType argTy) const {
         switch (BT->getKind()) {
           default:
             break;
+          case BuiltinType::Bool:
+            if (Ptr && (T == C.UnsignedCharTy || T == C.SignedCharTy))
+              return NoMatch;
+            [[fallthrough]];
           case BuiltinType::Char_S:
           case BuiltinType::SChar:
           case BuiltinType::Char_U:
           case BuiltinType::UChar:
-          case BuiltinType::Bool:
             if (T == C.UnsignedShortTy || T == C.ShortTy)
               return NoMatchTypeConfusion;
             if (T == C.UnsignedCharTy || T == C.SignedCharTy)
diff --git a/clang/test/SemaCXX/format-strings-scanf.cpp b/clang/test/SemaCXX/format-strings-scanf.cpp
index f78d334d1685e..25fe5346791a0 100644
--- a/clang/test/SemaCXX/format-strings-scanf.cpp
+++ b/clang/test/SemaCXX/format-strings-scanf.cpp
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ union bag {
 
 void test(void) {
     bag b;
+    // expected-warning@+2 {{format specifies type 'char *' but the argument has type 'bool *'}}
+    // expected-warning@+1 {{format specifies type 'unsigned char *' but the argument has type 'bool *'}}
     scan("%hhi %hhu %hhi %hhu", &b.sc, &b.uc, &b.b, &b.b);
     scan("%hi %hu", &b.ss, &b.us);
     scan("%i %u", &b.si, &b.ui);