diff --git a/lib/internal/event_target.js b/lib/internal/event_target.js
index 2da787d6388603..c1b8bbcf283dc5 100644
--- a/lib/internal/event_target.js
+++ b/lib/internal/event_target.js
@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ class Event {
   stopImmediatePropagation() {
     if (!isEvent(this))
       throw new ERR_INVALID_THIS('Event');
+    // Spec mention "stopImmediatePropagation should set both "stop propagation"
+    // and "stop immediate propagation" flags"
+    // cf: from https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-event-stopimmediatepropagation
+    this.stopPropagation();
     this[kStop] = true;
   }
 
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-eventtarget.js b/test/parallel/test-eventtarget.js
index 016d357c9d7c91..9de7c2c41cbd30 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-eventtarget.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-eventtarget.js
@@ -345,7 +345,9 @@ let asyncTest = Promise.resolve();
 {
   const target = new EventTarget();
   const event = new Event('foo');
+  strictEqual(event.cancelBubble, false);
   event.stopImmediatePropagation();
+  strictEqual(event.cancelBubble, true);
   target.addEventListener('foo', common.mustNotCall());
   target.dispatchEvent(event);
 }