diff --git a/babel.config.js b/babel.config.js
index fabe3ac8dafc..8f12e3d65546 100644
--- a/babel.config.js
+++ b/babel.config.js
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ module.exports = function (api) {
 
       convertESM ? "@babel/proposal-export-namespace-from" : null,
       convertESM ? "@babel/transform-modules-commonjs" : null,
+      convertESM ? pluginDefaultImportNode : null,
 
       pluginPackageJsonMacro,
 
@@ -405,3 +406,41 @@ function pluginPackageJsonMacro({ types: t }) {
     },
   };
 }
+
+// Match the Node.js behavior (the default import is module.exports)
+function pluginDefaultImportNode({ types: t }) {
+  return {
+    visitor: {
+      ImportDeclaration(path) {
+        const specifiers = path.get("specifiers");
+        if (
+          specifiers.length === 0 ||
+          !specifiers[0].isImportDefaultSpecifier()
+        ) {
+          return;
+        }
+
+        const { source } = path.node;
+        if (
+          source.value.startsWith(".") ||
+          source.value.startsWith("@babel/")
+        ) {
+          // For internal modules, it's either "all CJS" or "all ESM".
+          // We don't need to worry about interop.
+          return;
+        }
+
+        path.insertAfter(
+          t.variableDeclaration("const", [
+            t.variableDeclarator(
+              specifiers[0].node.local,
+              t.callExpression(t.identifier("require"), [path.node.source])
+            ),
+          ])
+        );
+
+        specifiers[0].remove();
+      },
+    },
+  };
+}
diff --git a/packages/babel-helper-transform-fixture-test-runner/src/index.js b/packages/babel-helper-transform-fixture-test-runner/src/index.js
index 92db61e95e6d..8cf2f8133ff1 100644
--- a/packages/babel-helper-transform-fixture-test-runner/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/babel-helper-transform-fixture-test-runner/src/index.js
@@ -13,10 +13,12 @@ import assert from "assert";
 import fs from "fs";
 import path from "path";
 import vm from "vm";
-import checkDuplicatedNodes from "babel-check-duplicated-nodes";
 import QuickLRU from "quick-lru";
 import escapeRegExp from "./escape-regexp.cjs";
 
+import _checkDuplicatedNodes from "babel-check-duplicated-nodes";
+const checkDuplicatedNodes = _checkDuplicatedNodes.default;
+
 const cachedScripts = new QuickLRU({ maxSize: 10 });
 const contextModuleCache = new WeakMap();
 const sharedTestContext = createContext();
diff --git a/packages/babel-highlight/src/index.ts b/packages/babel-highlight/src/index.ts
index 6ef68de5fe88..373f37edcd7e 100644
--- a/packages/babel-highlight/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/babel-highlight/src/index.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 /// <reference path="../../../lib/third-party-libs.d.ts" />
 
-import jsTokens, * as jsTokensNs from "js-tokens";
 import type { Token, JSXToken } from "js-tokens";
+import jsTokens from "js-tokens";
+
 import {
   isStrictReservedWord,
   isKeyword,
@@ -158,9 +159,6 @@ if (process.env.BABEL_8_BREAKING) {
     }
   };
 } else {
-  // This is only available in js-tokens@4, and not in js-tokens@6
-  const { matchToToken } = jsTokensNs as any;
-
   /**
    * RegExp to test for what seems to be a JSX tag name.
    */
@@ -204,8 +202,8 @@ if (process.env.BABEL_8_BREAKING) {
 
   tokenize = function* (text: string) {
     let match;
-    while ((match = (jsTokens as any).exec(text))) {
-      const token = matchToToken(match);
+    while ((match = (jsTokens as any).default.exec(text))) {
+      const token = (jsTokens as any).matchToToken(match);
 
       yield {
         type: getTokenType(token, match.index, text),