diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e4cddd7badff..00b4911b7208 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 ### Fixes
 
-- `[jest-environment-node]` Add mising globals: TextEncoder and TextDecoder ([#8022](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/8022))
+- `[jest-environment-node]` Add missing globals: TextEncoder and TextDecoder ([#8022](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/8022))
 - `[jest-cli]` Fix prototype pollution vulnerability in dependency ([#7904](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7904))
 - `[jest-cli]` Refactor `-o` and `--coverage` combined ([#7611](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7611))
 - `[expect]` Fix custom async matcher stack trace ([#7652](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7652))
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 - `[jest-changed-files]` Improve default file selection for Mercurial repos ([#7880](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7880))
 - `[jest-validate]` Fix validating async functions ([#7894](https://github.com/facebook/jest/issues/7894))
 - `[jest-circus]` Fix bug with test.only ([#7888](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7888))
-- `[jest-transform]` Normalize config and remove unecessary checks, convert `TestUtils.js` to TypeScript ([#7801](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7801))
+- `[jest-transform]` Normalize config and remove unnecessary checks, convert `TestUtils.js` to TypeScript ([#7801](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7801))
 - `[jest-worker]` Fix `jest-worker` when using pre-allocated jobs ([#7934](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7934))
 - `[jest-changed-files]` Fix `getChangedFilesFromRoots` to not return parts of the commit messages as if they were files, when the commit messages contained multiple paragraphs ([#7961](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7961))
 - `[jest-haste-map]` Enforce uniqueness in names (mocks and haste ids) ([#8002](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/8002))
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 - `[jest-circus]`: Throw explicit error when errors happen after test is considered complete ([#8005](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/8005))
 - `[expect]` Remove duck typing and obsolete browser support code when comparing DOM nodes and use DOM-Level-3 API instead ([#7995](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7995))
 - `[jest-mock]` Adds a type check to `prototype` to allow mocks of objects with a primitive `prototype` property. ([#8040](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/8040))
+- `[jest-util]`Make sure to not fail if unable to assign `toStringTag` to the `process` object, which is read only in Node 12 ([#8050](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/8050))
 
 ### Chore & Maintenance
 
diff --git a/packages/jest-util/src/createProcessObject.ts b/packages/jest-util/src/createProcessObject.ts
index f6d5b65843a8..903336636bdd 100644
--- a/packages/jest-util/src/createProcessObject.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-util/src/createProcessObject.ts
@@ -75,7 +75,19 @@ export default function() {
     keepPrototype: true,
   });
 
-  newProcess[Symbol.toStringTag] = 'process';
+  try {
+    // This fails on Node 12, but it's already set to 'process'
+    newProcess[Symbol.toStringTag] = 'process';
+  } catch (e) {
+    // Make sure it's actually set instead of potentially ignoring errors
+    if (newProcess[Symbol.toStringTag] !== 'process') {
+      e.message =
+        'Unable to set toStringTag on process. Please open up an issue at https://github.com/facebook/jest\n\n' +
+        e.message;
+
+      throw e;
+    }
+  }
 
   // Sequentially execute all constructors over the object.
   let proto = process;