diff --git a/dlls/advapi32/tests/registry.c b/dlls/advapi32/tests/registry.c
index 505e7fca9c5..04037722161 100644
--- a/dlls/advapi32/tests/registry.c
+++ b/dlls/advapi32/tests/registry.c
@@ -330,6 +330,22 @@ static void test_reg_open_key()
     ok(ret == ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER, "expected ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER, got %ld\n", ret);
 }
 
+static void test_reg_create_key()
+{
+    LONG ret;
+    HKEY hkey1, hkey2;
+    ret = RegCreateKeyExA(hkey_main, "Subkey1", 0, NULL, 0, KEY_NOTIFY, NULL, &hkey1, NULL);
+    ok(!ret, "RegCreateKeyExA failed with error %ld\n", ret);
+    /* should succeed: all versions of Windows ignore the access rights
+     * to the parent handle */
+    ret = RegCreateKeyExA(hkey1, "Subkey2", 0, NULL, 0, KEY_SET_VALUE, NULL, &hkey2, NULL);
+    ok(!ret, "RegCreateKeyExA failed with error %ld\n", ret);
+
+    /* clean up */
+    RegDeleteKey(hkey2, NULL);
+    RegDeleteKey(hkey1, NULL);
+}
+
 static void test_reg_close_key()
 {
     DWORD ret = 0;
@@ -435,6 +451,7 @@ START_TEST(registry)
     test_enum_value();
     test_query_value_ex();
     test_reg_open_key();
+    test_reg_create_key();
     test_reg_close_key();
     test_reg_delete_key();
 
diff --git a/server/registry.c b/server/registry.c
index 7546fa538e0..3ddeffa7263 100644
--- a/server/registry.c
+++ b/server/registry.c
@@ -1690,7 +1690,8 @@ DECL_HANDLER(create_key)
     if (access & MAXIMUM_ALLOWED) access = KEY_ALL_ACCESS;  /* FIXME: needs general solution */
     reply->hkey = 0;
     if (!(name = copy_req_path( req->namelen, !req->parent ))) return;
-    if ((parent = get_hkey_obj( req->parent, KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY )))
+    /* NOTE: no access rights are required from the parent handle to create a key */
+    if ((parent = get_hkey_obj( req->parent, 0 )))
     {
         int flags = (req->options & REG_OPTION_VOLATILE) ? KEY_VOLATILE : KEY_DIRTY;