diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Core/setUpXHR.js b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Core/setUpXHR.js
index 5b7e03cbfbce..d975cc6fd5b6 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Core/setUpXHR.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Core/setUpXHR.js
@@ -36,9 +36,12 @@ polyfillGlobal('URL', () => require('../Blob/URL').URL);
 polyfillGlobal('URLSearchParams', () => require('../Blob/URL').URLSearchParams);
 polyfillGlobal(
   'AbortController',
-  () => require('abort-controller/dist/abort-controller').AbortController, // flowlint-line untyped-import:off
+  () =>
+    require('abortcontroller-polyfill/dist/abortsignal-ponyfill')
+      .AbortController, // flowlint-line untyped-import:off
 );
 polyfillGlobal(
   'AbortSignal',
-  () => require('abort-controller/dist/abort-controller').AbortSignal, // flowlint-line untyped-import:off
+  () =>
+    require('abortcontroller-polyfill/dist/abortsignal-ponyfill').AbortSignal, // flowlint-line untyped-import:off
 );
diff --git a/packages/react-native/package.json b/packages/react-native/package.json
index 97a223c4e712..c91a99228243 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-native/package.json
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
     "@react-native/js-polyfills": "0.83.0-main",
     "@react-native/normalize-colors": "0.83.0-main",
     "@react-native/virtualized-lists": "0.83.0-main",
-    "abort-controller": "^3.0.0",
+    "abortcontroller-polyfill": "^1.7.7",
     "anser": "^1.4.9",
     "ansi-regex": "^5.0.0",
     "babel-jest": "^29.7.0",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 447915c86f67..de3aa1066b86 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -1043,7 +1043,20 @@
     "@babel/parser" "^7.27.2"
     "@babel/types" "^7.27.1"
 
-"@babel/traverse--for-generate-function-map@npm:@babel/traverse@^7.25.3", "@babel/traverse@^7.25.3", "@babel/traverse@^7.25.9", "@babel/traverse@^7.26.8":
+"@babel/traverse--for-generate-function-map@npm:@babel/traverse@^7.25.3":
+  version "7.26.9"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@babel/traverse/-/traverse-7.26.9.tgz#4398f2394ba66d05d988b2ad13c219a2c857461a"
+  integrity sha512-ZYW7L+pL8ahU5fXmNbPF+iZFHCv5scFak7MZ9bwaRPLUhHh7QQEMjZUg0HevihoqCM5iSYHN61EyCoZvqC+bxg==
+  dependencies:
+    "@babel/code-frame" "^7.26.2"
+    "@babel/generator" "^7.26.9"
+    "@babel/parser" "^7.26.9"
+    "@babel/template" "^7.26.9"
+    "@babel/types" "^7.26.9"
+    debug "^4.3.1"
+    globals "^11.1.0"
+
+"@babel/traverse@^7.25.3", "@babel/traverse@^7.25.9", "@babel/traverse@^7.26.8":
   version "7.26.9"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@babel/traverse/-/traverse-7.26.9.tgz#4398f2394ba66d05d988b2ad13c219a2c857461a"
   integrity sha512-ZYW7L+pL8ahU5fXmNbPF+iZFHCv5scFak7MZ9bwaRPLUhHh7QQEMjZUg0HevihoqCM5iSYHN61EyCoZvqC+bxg==
@@ -2668,12 +2681,10 @@
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@xmldom/xmldom/-/xmldom-0.8.10.tgz#a1337ca426aa61cef9fe15b5b28e340a72f6fa99"
   integrity sha512-2WALfTl4xo2SkGCYRt6rDTFfk9R1czmBvUQy12gK2KuRKIpWEhcbbzy8EZXtz/jkRqHX8bFEc6FC1HjX4TUWYw==
 
-abort-controller@^3.0.0:
-  version "3.0.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/abort-controller/-/abort-controller-3.0.0.tgz#eaf54d53b62bae4138e809ca225c8439a6efb392"
-  integrity sha512-h8lQ8tacZYnR3vNQTgibj+tODHI5/+l06Au2Pcriv/Gmet0eaj4TwWH41sO9wnHDiQsEj19q0drzdWdeAHtweg==
-  dependencies:
-    event-target-shim "^5.0.0"
+abortcontroller-polyfill@^1.7.7:
+  version "1.7.8"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/abortcontroller-polyfill/-/abortcontroller-polyfill-1.7.8.tgz#fe8d4370403f02e2aa37e3d2b0b178bae9d83f49"
+  integrity sha512-9f1iZ2uWh92VcrU9Y8x+LdM4DLj75VE0MJB8zuF1iUnroEptStw+DQ8EQPMUdfe5k+PkB1uUfDQfWbhstH8LrQ==
 
 accepts@^1.3.7, accepts@~1.3.7:
   version "1.3.8"
@@ -4515,11 +4526,6 @@ etag@~1.8.1:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/etag/-/etag-1.8.1.tgz#41ae2eeb65efa62268aebfea83ac7d79299b0887"
   integrity sha512-aIL5Fx7mawVa300al2BnEE4iNvo1qETxLrPI/o05L7z6go7fCw1J6EQmbK4FmJ2AS7kgVF/KEZWufBfdClMcPg==
 
-event-target-shim@^5.0.0:
-  version "5.0.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/event-target-shim/-/event-target-shim-5.0.1.tgz#5d4d3ebdf9583d63a5333ce2deb7480ab2b05789"
-  integrity sha512-i/2XbnSz/uxRCU6+NdVJgKWDTM427+MqYbkQzD321DuCQJUqOuJKIA0IM2+W2xtYHdKOmZ4dR6fExsd4SXL+WQ==
-
 eventemitter3@^5.0.1:
   version "5.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/eventemitter3/-/eventemitter3-5.0.1.tgz#53f5ffd0a492ac800721bb42c66b841de96423c4"