diff --git a/src/node.cc b/src/node.cc
index e7c8eb177af162..e7d61c05b275e2 100644
--- a/src/node.cc
+++ b/src/node.cc
@@ -1521,8 +1521,8 @@ void AppendExceptionLine(Environment* env,
   // sourceline to 78 characters, and we end up not providing very much
   // useful debugging info to the user if we remove 62 characters.
 
-  int start = message->GetStartColumn(env->context()).FromJust();
-  int end = message->GetEndColumn(env->context()).FromJust();
+  int start = message->GetStartColumn(env->context()).FromMaybe(0);
+  int end = message->GetEndColumn(env->context()).FromMaybe(0);
 
   char arrow[1024];
   int max_off = sizeof(arrow) - 2;
diff --git a/src/node_contextify.cc b/src/node_contextify.cc
index db83660308ce99..bef7168ada755b 100644
--- a/src/node_contextify.cc
+++ b/src/node_contextify.cc
@@ -205,7 +205,11 @@ class ContextifyContext {
 
     Local<Context> ctx = Context::New(env->isolate(), nullptr, object_template);
 
-    CHECK(!ctx.IsEmpty());
+    if (ctx.IsEmpty()) {
+      env->ThrowError("Could not instantiate context");
+      return Local<Context>();
+    }
+
     ctx->SetSecurityToken(env->context()->GetSecurityToken());
 
     // We need to tie the lifetime of the sandbox object with the lifetime of
@@ -632,9 +636,11 @@ class ContextifyScript : public BaseObject {
             env->arrow_message_private_symbol());
 
     Local<Value> arrow;
-    if (!(maybe_value.ToLocal(&arrow) &&
-          arrow->IsString() &&
-          stack->IsString())) {
+    if (!(maybe_value.ToLocal(&arrow) && arrow->IsString())) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    if (stack.IsEmpty() || !stack->IsString()) {
       return;
     }
 
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-vm-low-stack-space.js b/test/parallel/test-vm-low-stack-space.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..7c1313d47c1ad9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-vm-low-stack-space.js
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const vm = require('vm');
+
+function a() {
+  try {
+    return a();
+  } catch (e) {
+    // Throw an exception as near to the recursion-based RangeError as possible.
+    return vm.runInThisContext('() => 42')();
+  }
+}
+
+assert.strictEqual(a(), 42);
+
+function b() {
+  try {
+    return b();
+  } catch (e) {
+    // This writes a lot of noise to stderr, but it still works.
+    return vm.runInNewContext('() => 42')();
+  }
+}
+
+assert.strictEqual(b(), 42);