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+'use strict';
+// https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12300
+
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const vm = require('vm');
+
+const ctx = vm.createContext({ x: 42 });
+
+// The following line wrongly throws an
+// error because GlobalPropertySetterCallback()
+// does not check if the property exists
+// on the sandbox. It should just set x to 1
+// instead of throwing an error.
+vm.runInContext('"use strict"; x = 1', ctx);
+
+assert.strictEqual(ctx.x, 1);