diff --git a/src/api/environment.cc b/src/api/environment.cc
index a99201e7621..6cd2c6c34a1 100644
--- a/src/api/environment.cc
+++ b/src/api/environment.cc
@@ -705,6 +705,7 @@ void DefaultProcessExitHandler(Environment* env, int exit_code) {
   env->set_can_call_into_js(false);
   env->stop_sub_worker_contexts();
   DisposePlatform();
+  uv_library_shutdown();
   exit(exit_code);
 }
 
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-crypto-op-during-process-exit.js b/test/parallel/test-crypto-op-during-process-exit.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a9a70c39e09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-crypto-op-during-process-exit.js
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+if (!common.hasCrypto) { common.skip('missing crypto'); }
+const assert = require('assert');
+const { generateKeyPair } = require('crypto');
+
+if (common.isWindows) {
+  // Remove this conditional once the libuv change is in Node.js.
+  common.skip('crashing due to https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/2983');
+}
+
+// Regression test for a race condition: process.exit() might lead to OpenSSL
+// cleaning up state from the exit() call via calling its destructor, but
+// running OpenSSL operations on another thread might lead to them attempting
+// to initialize OpenSSL, leading to a crash.
+// This test crashed consistently on x64 Linux on Node v14.9.0.
+
+generateKeyPair('rsa', {
+  modulusLength: 2048,
+  privateKeyEncoding: {
+    type: 'pkcs1',
+    format: 'pem'
+  }
+}, (err/* , publicKey, privateKey */) => {
+  assert.ifError(err);
+});
+
+setTimeout(() => process.exit(), common.platformTimeout(10));