diff --git a/lib/internal/socketaddress.js b/lib/internal/socketaddress.js
index 724ffd90cf77f1..ba11a6fb66cc1b 100644
--- a/lib/internal/socketaddress.js
+++ b/lib/internal/socketaddress.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 const {
   ObjectSetPrototypeOf,
+  StringPrototypeSlice,
   Symbol,
 } = primordials;
 
@@ -159,7 +160,7 @@ class SocketAddress {
       } = URLParse(`http://${input}`);
       if (address.startsWith('[') && address.endsWith(']')) {
         return new SocketAddress({
-          address: address.slice(1, -1),
+          address: StringPrototypeSlice(address, 1, -1),
           port: port | 0,
           family: 'ipv6',
         });