diff --git a/test/known_issues/test-vm-attributes-property-not-on-sandbox.js b/test/known_issues/test-vm-attributes-property-not-on-sandbox.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..d9534c3d4393a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/known_issues/test-vm-attributes-property-not-on-sandbox.js
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const vm = require('vm');
+
+// The QueryCallback explicitly calls GetRealNamedPropertyAttributes
+// on the global proxy if the property is not found on the sandbox.
+//
+// foo is not defined on the sandbox until we call CopyProperties().
+// In the QueryCallback, we do not find the property on the sandbox
+// and look up its PropertyAttributes on the global_proxy().
+// PropertyAttributes are always flattened to a value
+// descriptor.
+const sandbox = {};
+vm.createContext(sandbox);
+const code = `Object.defineProperty(
+               this,
+               'foo',
+               { get: function() {return 17} }
+             );
+             var desc = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(this, 'foo');`;
+
+vm.runInContext(code, sandbox);
+// The descriptor is flattened. We wrongly have typeof desc.value = 'number'.
+assert.strictEqual(typeof sandbox.desc.get, 'function');
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-vm-property-not-on-sandbox.js b/test/parallel/test-vm-property-not-on-sandbox.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..08ea5890784c37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-vm-property-not-on-sandbox.js
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const vm = require('vm');
+
+// This, admittedly contrived, example tests an edge cases of the vm module.
+//
+// The GetterCallback explicitly checks the global_proxy() if a property is
+// not found on the sandbox. In the following test, the explicit check
+// inside the callback yields different results than deferring the
+// check until after the callback. The check is deferred if the
+// callback does not intercept, i.e., if args.GetReturnValue().Set() is
+// not called.
+
+// Check that the GetterCallback explicitly calls GetRealNamedProperty()
+// on the global proxy if the property is not found on the sandbox.
+//
+// foo is not defined on the sandbox until we call CopyProperties().
+// In the GetterCallback, we do not find the property on the sandbox and
+// get the property from the global proxy. Since the return value is
+// the sandbox, we replace it by
+// the global_proxy to keep the correct identities.
+//
+// This test case is partially inspired by
+// https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/855
+const sandbox = {console};
+sandbox.document = {defaultView: sandbox};
+vm.createContext(sandbox);
+const code = `Object.defineProperty(
+               this,
+               'foo',
+               { get: function() {return document.defaultView} }
+             );
+             var result = foo === this;`;
+
+vm.runInContext(code, sandbox);
+assert.strictEqual(sandbox.result, true);