diff --git a/lib/internal/readline/utils.js b/lib/internal/readline/utils.js
index 510acf221831a0..ae7eb54af29adf 100644
--- a/lib/internal/readline/utils.js
+++ b/lib/internal/readline/utils.js
@@ -3,16 +3,18 @@
 const {
   Boolean,
   NumberIsInteger,
+  RegExp,
 } = primordials;
 
 // Regex used for ansi escape code splitting
 // Adopted from https://github.com/chalk/ansi-regex/blob/master/index.js
-// License: MIT, authors: @sindresorhus, Qix-, and arjunmehta
+// License: MIT, authors: @sindresorhus, Qix-, arjunmehta and LitoMore
 // Matches all ansi escape code sequences in a string
-/* eslint-disable no-control-regex */
-const ansi =
-  /[\u001b\u009b][[()#;?]*(?:[0-9]{1,4}(?:;[0-9]{0,4})*)?[0-9A-ORZcf-nqry=><]/g;
-/* eslint-enable no-control-regex */
+const ansiPattern = '[\\u001B\\u009B][[\\]()#;?]*' +
+  '(?:(?:(?:[a-zA-Z\\d]*(?:;[-a-zA-Z\\d\\/#&.:=?%@~_]*)*)?\\u0007)' +
+  '|(?:(?:\\d{1,4}(?:;\\d{0,4})*)?[\\dA-PR-TZcf-ntqry=><~]))';
+const ansi = new RegExp(ansiPattern, 'g');
+
 const kUTF16SurrogateThreshold = 0x10000; // 2 ** 16
 const kEscape = '\x1b';