diff --git a/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js b/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js
index 4bdee1b843fbd5..8f4b6b25d88896 100644
--- a/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js
+++ b/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ const { dirname, extname, isAbsolute } = require('path');
 const {
   loadBuiltinModule,
   stripBOM,
+  urlToFilename,
 } = require('internal/modules/helpers');
 const {
   kIsCachedByESMLoader,
@@ -243,7 +244,7 @@ function loadCJSModule(module, source, url, filename) {
       }
     }
     const { url: resolvedURL } = cascadedLoader.resolveSync(specifier, url, kEmptyObject);
-    return StringPrototypeStartsWith(resolvedURL, 'file://') ? fileURLToPath(resolvedURL) : resolvedURL;
+    return urlToFilename(resolvedURL);
   });
   setOwnProperty(requireFn, 'main', process.mainModule);
 
@@ -265,7 +266,7 @@ const cjsCache = new SafeMap();
 function createCJSModuleWrap(url, source, isMain, loadCJS = loadCJSModule) {
   debug(`Translating CJSModule ${url}`);
 
-  const filename = StringPrototypeStartsWith(url, 'file://') ? fileURLToPath(url) : url;
+  const filename = urlToFilename(url);
   // In case the source was not provided by the `load` step, we need fetch it now.
   source = stringify(source ?? getSource(new URL(url)).source);