diff --git a/lib/internal/fs/cp/cp.js b/lib/internal/fs/cp/cp.js
index 1ec5a2d89cac..0c4338711690 100644
--- a/lib/internal/fs/cp/cp.js
+++ b/lib/internal/fs/cp/cp.js
@@ -398,8 +398,7 @@ async function onLink(destStat, src, dest, opts) {
   // Do not copy if src is a subdir of dest since unlinking
   // dest in this case would result in removing src contents
   // and therefore a broken symlink would be created.
-  const srcStat = await stat(src);
-  if (srcStat.isDirectory() && isSrcSubdir(resolvedDest, resolvedSrc)) {
+  if (srcIsDir && isSrcSubdir(resolvedDest, resolvedSrc)) {
     throw new ERR_FS_CP_SYMLINK_TO_SUBDIRECTORY({
       message: `cannot overwrite ${resolvedDest} with ${resolvedSrc}`,
       path: dest,
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-fs-cp-async-dangling-symlink-over-symlink.mjs b/test/parallel/test-fs-cp-async-dangling-symlink-over-symlink.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e69686bdd502
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-fs-cp-async-dangling-symlink-over-symlink.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { mustNotMutateObjectDeep } from '../common/index.mjs';
+import { nextdir } from '../common/fs.js';
+import assert from 'node:assert';
+import { promises, readlinkSync, symlinkSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path';
+import tmpdir from '../common/tmpdir.js';
+
+tmpdir.refresh();
+
+const src = nextdir();
+const dest = nextdir();
+symlinkSync('missing', src);
+symlinkSync(process.execPath, dest);
+
+await promises.cp(src, dest, mustNotMutateObjectDeep({ force: true }));
+assert.strictEqual(readlinkSync(dest), resolve(dirname(src), 'missing'));