diff --git a/patches/node/.patches b/patches/node/.patches
index 8e1c825c013a6..21845967164e5 100644
--- a/patches/node/.patches
+++ b/patches/node/.patches
@@ -25,3 +25,4 @@ add_should_read_node_options_from_env_option_to_disable_node_options.patch
 repl_fix_crash_when_sharedarraybuffer_disabled.patch
 fix_readbarrier_undefined_symbol_error_on_woa_arm64.patch
 fix_-wunreachable-code-return.patch
+fix_crash_creating_private_key_with_unsupported_algorithm.patch
diff --git a/patches/node/fix_crash_creating_private_key_with_unsupported_algorithm.patch b/patches/node/fix_crash_creating_private_key_with_unsupported_algorithm.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d8dd565ebcdad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/node/fix_crash_creating_private_key_with_unsupported_algorithm.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Shelley Vohr <shelley.vohr@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:29:23 +0200
+Subject: fix: crash creating private key with unsupported algorithm
+
+This patch fixes an issue where some calls to crypto.createPrivateKey
+made with algorithms unsupported by BoringSSL cause a crash when invoking
+methods on their return values. This was happening because BoringSSL
+shims some algorithms but doesn't implement them and so attempted to
+created keys with them will fail (see https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:third_party/boringssl/src/include/openssl/evp.h;l=835-837?q=ed448&ss=chromium)
+
+Node.js returned false in initEdRaw (see: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/20cf47004e7801ede1588d2de8785c0100f6ab38/src/crypto/crypto_keys.cc#L1106)
+but then did nothing with the return value, meaning that if no pkey was
+created successfully that a key object was still returned but attempts
+to use the data_ field would crash the process as data_ was never
+assigned. This is fixed by checking the return value of initEdRaw at the
+JavaScript level and throwing an error if the function returns false.
+
+This patch will be upstreamed in some form.
+
+diff --git a/lib/internal/crypto/keys.js b/lib/internal/crypto/keys.js
+index 4d5545ab1aae1ad392ac1fea878b887f4a8736c4..bde806e71a7b299ec2855de8e78c3e9ab449f508 100644
+--- a/lib/internal/crypto/keys.js
++++ b/lib/internal/crypto/keys.js
+@@ -437,15 +437,19 @@ function getKeyObjectHandleFromJwk(key, ctx) {
+ 
+     const handle = new KeyObjectHandle();
+     if (isPublic) {
+-      handle.initEDRaw(
++      if (!handle.initEDRaw(
+         `NODE-${key.crv.toUpperCase()}`,
+         keyData,
+-        kKeyTypePublic);
++        kKeyTypePublic)) {
++        throw new Error('Failed to create key - unsupported algorithm');
++      }
+     } else {
+-      handle.initEDRaw(
++      if (!handle.initEDRaw(
+         `NODE-${key.crv.toUpperCase()}`,
+         keyData,
+-        kKeyTypePrivate);
++        kKeyTypePrivate)) {
++        throw new Error('Failed to create key - unsupported algorithm');
++      }
+     }
+ 
+     return handle;
diff --git a/spec/node-spec.js b/spec/node-spec.js
index 56cf8c127d91f..4d06e39d445d4 100644
--- a/spec/node-spec.js
+++ b/spec/node-spec.js
@@ -317,6 +317,21 @@ describe('node feature', () => {
       // eslint-disable-next-line no-octal
       crypto.createDiffieHellman('abc', '123');
     });
+
+    it('does not crash when calling crypto.createPrivateKey() with an unsupported algorithm', () => {
+      const crypto = require('crypto');
+
+      const ed448 = {
+        crv: 'Ed448',
+        x: 'KYWcaDwgH77xdAwcbzOgvCVcGMy9I6prRQBhQTTdKXUcr-VquTz7Fd5adJO0wT2VHysF3bk3kBoA',
+        d: 'UhC3-vN5vp_g9PnTknXZgfXUez7Xvw-OfuJ0pYkuwzpYkcTvacqoFkV_O05WMHpyXkzH9q2wzx5n',
+        kty: 'OKP'
+      };
+
+      expect(() => {
+        crypto.createPrivateKey({ key: ed448, format: 'jwk' });
+      }).to.throw(/Failed to create key - unsupported algorithm/);
+    });
   });
 
   describe('process.stdout', () => {