diff --git a/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/IntegrationTestSuite.java b/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/IntegrationTestSuite.java
index 8238b15..aa151a1 100644
--- a/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/IntegrationTestSuite.java
+++ b/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/IntegrationTestSuite.java
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@
         // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         // suite.addTestSuite( MavenIT0108SnapshotUpdateTest.class ); -- MNG-3137
 
+        suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng7024SubfolderExecution.class );
         suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng6754TimestampInMultimoduleProject.class );
         suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng6981ProjectListShouldIncludeChildrenTest.class );
         suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng6972AllowAccessToGraphPackageTest.class );
diff --git a/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng7024SubfolderExecution.java b/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng7024SubfolderExecution.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2032b79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng7024SubfolderExecution.java
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+package org.apache.maven.it;
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+import org.apache.maven.it.util.ResourceExtractor;
+import org.apache.maven.shared.utils.io.FileUtils;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+/**
+ * This is a test case for <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-4660">MNG-4660</a>.
+ *
+ * @author Maarten Mulders
+ * @author Martin Kanters
+ */
+public class MavenITmng7024SubfolderExecution extends AbstractMavenIntegrationTestCase {
+    public MavenITmng7024SubfolderExecution()
+    {
+        super( "[4.0.0-alpha-1,)" );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Executing from a subfolder, however this folder is NOT part of the rootreactor, hence should not try to bind
+     */
+    public void testShouldIgnoreModuleA() throws Exception
+    {
+        final File testDir = ResourceExtractor.simpleExtractResources( getClass(), "/mng-7024-subfolderexecution" );
+
+        final Verifier verifier1 = newVerifier( testDir.getAbsolutePath() );
+
+        try
+        {
+            verifier1.executeGoal( "install" );
+
+            verifier1.deleteDirectory( "target" );
+            FileUtils.delete( new File( testDir, "module-a/target/module-a-1.0.jar" )  );
+        }
+        finally
+        {
+            verifier1.resetStreams();
+        }
+        verifier1.assertFilePresent( "module-a/target/classes" );
+        verifier1.assertFileNotPresent( "module-a/target/module-a-1.0.jar" );
+
+        final Verifier verifier2 = newVerifier( new File( testDir, "module-b" ).getAbsolutePath() );
+        verifier2.setAutoclean( false );
+        verifier2.addCliOption( "-fos" );
+        verifier2.addCliOption( "WARN" );
+        verifier2.executeGoal( "package" );
+
+        verifier2.verifyErrorFreeLog();
+        verifier2.resetStreams();
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/.mvn/jvm.config b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/.mvn/jvm.config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..294c1e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/.mvn/jvm.config
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+-DskipTests=true
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/module-a/pom.xml b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/module-a/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..289f80f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/module-a/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+-->
+
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <artifactId>module-a</artifactId>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng7024</groupId>
+        <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0</version>
+    </parent>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.22.0</version>
+	  </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/module-a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it/Example.java b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/module-a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it/Example.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1608aba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/module-a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it/Example.java
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package org.apache.maven.it;
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+public class Example
+{
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/module-b/pom.xml b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/module-b/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe12e95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/module-b/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+-->
+
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng7024</groupId>
+        <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0</version>
+    </parent>
+    <artifactId>module-b</artifactId>
+    <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+    <dependencies>
+      <dependency>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng7024</groupId>
+          <artifactId>module-a</artifactId>
+          <version>1.0</version>
+      </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>3.1.0</version>
+          <configuration>
+            <descriptorRefs>
+              <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
+            </descriptorRefs>
+          </configuration>
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+              <id>make-assembly</id>
+              <phase>package</phase>
+              <goals>
+                <goal>single</goal>
+              </goals>
+            </execution>
+          </executions>
+        </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/module-b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it/AnotherExample.java b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/module-b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it/AnotherExample.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..20ab187
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/module-b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it/AnotherExample.java
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package org.apache.maven.it;
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+public class AnotherExample
+{
+    public AnotherExample()
+    {
+        new Example();
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/pom.xml b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e3af5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7024-subfolderexecution/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+-->
+
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng7024</groupId>
+    <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0</version>
+
+    <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+    <name>Maven Integration Test :: MNG-7024</name>
+    <description>
+        If executing 'mvn package :module-b' it should NOT try to pick up module-a from the multimodule project
+        because module-b is not part of the rootreactor (it is a profile activated module)
+    </description>
+
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
+        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
+    </properties>
+
+    <modules>
+        <module>module-a</module>
+    </modules>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <version>4.12</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+    
+    <profiles>
+      <profile>
+        <id>dist</id>
+        <modules>
+          <module>module-b</module>
+        </modules>
+      </profile>
+    </profiles>
+
+</project>