diff --git a/lib/_tls_common.js b/lib/_tls_common.js
index 2a4ad9b24e8a8a..53d082bfa33178 100644
--- a/lib/_tls_common.js
+++ b/lib/_tls_common.js
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ exports.createSecureContext = function createSecureContext(options) {
   if (cipherSuites === '' && cipherList === '') {
     // Specifying empty cipher suites for both TLS1.2 and TLS1.3 is invalid, its
     // not possible to handshake with no suites.
-    throw ERR_INVALID_OPT_VALUE('ciphers', ciphers);
+    throw new ERR_INVALID_OPT_VALUE('ciphers', ciphers);
   }
 
   c.context.setCipherSuites(cipherSuites);