diff --git a/lib/internal/console/constructor.js b/lib/internal/console/constructor.js
index af027cf3b3cc59..355e0a0f2bf445 100644
--- a/lib/internal/console/constructor.js
+++ b/lib/internal/console/constructor.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ const {
   Boolean,
   Error,
   Map,
+  ObjectCreate,
   ObjectDefineProperties,
   ObjectDefineProperty,
   ObjectKeys,
@@ -532,7 +533,7 @@ const consoleMethods = {
       return final([iterKey, valuesKey], [getIndexArray(length), values]);
     }
 
-    const map = {};
+    const map = ObjectCreate(null);
     let hasPrimitives = false;
     const valuesKeyArray = [];
     const indexKeyArray = ObjectKeys(tabularData);
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-console-table.js b/test/parallel/test-console-table.js
index e2b3b71b628718..8a2ed71335de68 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-console-table.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-console-table.js
@@ -276,3 +276,18 @@ test({ foo: '你好', bar: 'hello' }, `
 │   bar   │ 'hello' │
 └─────────┴─────────┘
 `);
+
+// Regression test for prototype pollution via console.table. Earlier versions
+// of Node.js created an object with a non-null prototype within console.table
+// and then wrote to object[column][index], which lead to an error as well as
+// modifications to Object.prototype.
+test([{ foo: 10 }, { foo: 20 }], ['__proto__'], `
+┌─────────┬───────────┐
+│ (index) │ __proto__ │
+├─────────┼───────────┤
+│    0    │           │
+│    1    │           │
+└─────────┴───────────┘
+`);
+assert.strictEqual('0' in Object.prototype, false);
+assert.strictEqual('1' in Object.prototype, false);