diff --git a/lib/internal/vm.js b/lib/internal/vm.js
index 9f1c33b0ccfe..e6c5f4aaed69 100644
--- a/lib/internal/vm.js
+++ b/lib/internal/vm.js
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 'use strict';
 
 const {
+  ArrayPrototypeForEach,
   FunctionPrototypeCall,
+  ReflectApply,
   Symbol,
 } = primordials;
 
@@ -111,6 +113,34 @@ function registerImportModuleDynamically(referrer, importModuleDynamically) {
   });
 }
 
+/**
+ * Temporarily removes all SIGINT listeners before invoking `fn`, re-attaching
+ * them afterwards. Used to run code with `breakOnSigint: true`, where a
+ * native SigintWatchdog is installed to terminate execution on SIGINT: if the
+ * process's own SIGINT listeners stayed attached, they would race with that
+ * watchdog over the same signal instead of running normally once the
+ * watchdog is gone.
+ * @param {Function} fn - The function to invoke with SIGINT listeners removed.
+ * @param {object} thisArg - The `this` value to invoke `fn` with.
+ * @param {Array} argsArray - The arguments to invoke `fn` with.
+ * @returns {any}
+ */
+function sigintHandlersWrap(fn, thisArg, argsArray) {
+  const sigintListeners = process.rawListeners('SIGINT');
+
+  process.removeAllListeners('SIGINT');
+
+  try {
+    return ReflectApply(fn, thisArg, argsArray);
+  } finally {
+    // Add using the public methods so that the `newListener` handler of
+    // process can re-attach the listeners.
+    ArrayPrototypeForEach(sigintListeners, (listener) => {
+      process.addListener('SIGINT', listener);
+    });
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Compiles a function from the given code string.
  * @param {string} code - The code string to compile.
@@ -234,4 +264,5 @@ module.exports = {
   makeContextifyScript,
   registerImportModuleDynamically,
   runScriptInThisContext,
+  sigintHandlersWrap,
 };
diff --git a/lib/internal/vm/module.js b/lib/internal/vm/module.js
index ce2350f6cd16..464aa4d28031 100644
--- a/lib/internal/vm/module.js
+++ b/lib/internal/vm/module.js
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ const kContext = Symbol('kContext');
 const kPerContextModuleId = Symbol('kPerContextModuleId');
 const kLink = Symbol('kLink');
 
-const { isContext } = require('internal/vm');
+const { isContext, sigintHandlersWrap } = require('internal/vm');
 
 function isModule(object) {
   if (typeof object !== 'object' || object === null || !ObjectPrototypeHasOwnProperty(object, kWrap)) {
@@ -230,6 +230,10 @@ class Module {
           'must be one of linked, evaluated, or errored',
         );
       }
+      if (breakOnSigint && process.listenerCount('SIGINT') > 0) {
+        return sigintHandlersWrap(
+          this[kWrap].evaluate, this[kWrap], [timeout, breakOnSigint]);
+      }
       return this[kWrap].evaluate(timeout, breakOnSigint);
     } catch (e) {
       return PromiseReject(e);
diff --git a/lib/vm.js b/lib/vm.js
index 2c7446af6076..913c85a679df 100644
--- a/lib/vm.js
+++ b/lib/vm.js
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ const {
   internalCompileFunction,
   isContext: _isContext,
   registerImportModuleDynamically,
+  sigintHandlersWrap,
 } = require('internal/vm');
 const {
   vm_dynamic_import_main_context_default,
@@ -270,24 +271,6 @@ function createScript(code, options) {
   return new Script(code, options);
 }
 
-// Remove all SIGINT listeners and re-attach them after the wrapped function
-// has executed, so that caught SIGINT are handled by the listeners again.
-function sigintHandlersWrap(fn, thisArg, argsArray) {
-  const sigintListeners = process.rawListeners('SIGINT');
-
-  process.removeAllListeners('SIGINT');
-
-  try {
-    return ReflectApply(fn, thisArg, argsArray);
-  } finally {
-    // Add using the public methods so that the `newListener` handler of
-    // process can re-attach the listeners.
-    ArrayPrototypeForEach(sigintListeners, (listener) => {
-      process.addListener('SIGINT', listener);
-    });
-  }
-}
-
 function runInContext(code, contextifiedObject, options) {
   validateContext(contextifiedObject);
   if (typeof options === 'string') {
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-vm-module-sigint-existing-handler.js b/test/parallel/test-vm-module-sigint-existing-handler.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7d4a126cbdc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-vm-module-sigint-existing-handler.js
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+if (common.isWindows) {
+  // No way to send CTRL_C_EVENT to processes from JS right now.
+  common.skip('platform not supported');
+}
+
+// Tests that vm.Module.prototype.evaluate({ breakOnSigint: true }) does not
+// race with the process's own pre-existing SIGINT listeners, the same way
+// vm.Script's runInThisContext()/runInContext() already don't (see
+// test-vm-sigint-existing-handler.js).
+
+const assert = require('assert');
+const vm = require('vm');
+const spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
+
+if (process.argv[2] === 'child') {
+  let firstHandlerCalled = 0;
+  process.on('SIGINT', common.mustCall(() => {
+    firstHandlerCalled++;
+    // Handler attached _before_ execution.
+  }, 2));
+
+  let onceHandlerCalled = 0;
+  process.once('SIGINT', common.mustCall(() => {
+    onceHandlerCalled++;
+    // Handler attached _before_ execution.
+  }));
+
+  (async () => {
+    const context = vm.createContext({ process });
+    const mod = new vm.SourceTextModule(
+      'process.send("ready"); while (true) {}',
+      { context });
+    await mod.link(() => {});
+
+    await assert.rejects(
+      mod.evaluate({ breakOnSigint: true }),
+      { code: 'ERR_SCRIPT_EXECUTION_INTERRUPTED' },
+    );
+    assert.strictEqual(firstHandlerCalled, 0);
+    assert.strictEqual(onceHandlerCalled, 0);
+
+    // Keep the process alive for a while so the second SIGINT can be caught.
+    const timeout = setTimeout(() => {}, 1000);
+
+    let afterHandlerCalled = 0;
+    process.on('SIGINT', common.mustCall(() => {
+      // Handler attached _after_ execution.
+      if (afterHandlerCalled++ === 0) {
+        // The first time it just bounces back to check that the `once()`
+        // handler is not called the second time.
+        assert.strictEqual(firstHandlerCalled, 1);
+        assert.strictEqual(onceHandlerCalled, 1);
+        process.send('again');
+        return;
+      }
+
+      assert.strictEqual(onceHandlerCalled, 1);
+      assert.strictEqual(firstHandlerCalled, 2);
+      timeout.unref();
+    }, 2));
+
+    process.send('again');
+  })().then(common.mustCall());
+
+  return;
+}
+
+const child = spawn(process.execPath, [
+  '--experimental-vm-modules', __filename, 'child',
+], {
+  stdio: [null, 'inherit', 'inherit', 'ipc'],
+});
+
+child.on('message', common.mustCall(() => {
+  // First kill() breaks the while(true) loop, second one invokes the real
+  // signal handlers.
+  process.kill(child.pid, 'SIGINT');
+}, 3));
+
+child.on('close', common.mustCall((code, signal) => {
+  assert.strictEqual(signal, null);
+  assert.strictEqual(code, 0);
+}));