diff --git a/lib/internal/fs/glob.js b/lib/internal/fs/glob.js
index 1bfa39150e5196..526efd4c010d7c 100644
--- a/lib/internal/fs/glob.js
+++ b/lib/internal/fs/glob.js
@@ -65,8 +65,10 @@ async function getDirent(path) {
  * @returns {DirentFromStats|null}
  */
 function getDirentSync(path) {
-  const stat = lstatSync(path, { throwIfNoEntry: false });
-  if (stat === undefined) {
+  let stat;
+  try {
+    stat = lstatSync(path);
+  } catch {
     return null;
   }
   return new DirentFromStats(basename(path), stat, dirname(path));
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-fs-glob.mjs b/test/parallel/test-fs-glob.mjs
index 54523219cc2d97..74791deba373e3 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-fs-glob.mjs
+++ b/test/parallel/test-fs-glob.mjs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import * as common from '../common/index.mjs';
 import tmpdir from '../common/tmpdir.js';
 import { resolve, dirname, sep, relative, join, isAbsolute } from 'node:path';
 import { mkdir, writeFile, symlink, glob as asyncGlob } from 'node:fs/promises';
-import { glob, globSync, Dirent, chmodSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { glob, globSync, Dirent, chmodSync, writeFileSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { test, describe } from 'node:test';
 import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
 import { promisify } from 'node:util';
@@ -543,3 +543,21 @@ describe('glob - with restricted directory', function() {
     }
   });
 });
+
+describe('globSync - ENOTDIR', function() {
+  test('should return empty array when a file is treated as a directory', () => {
+    const file = tmpdir.resolve('foo');
+    writeFileSync(file, '');
+    try {
+      const pattern = 'foo{,/bar}';
+      const actual = globSync(pattern, { cwd: tmpdir.path }).sort();
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(actual, ['foo']);
+    } finally {
+      try {
+        rmSync(file);
+      } catch {
+        // ignore
+      }
+    }
+  });
+});