diff --git a/doc/api/events.md b/doc/api/events.md
index 30985b1ce0c12f..be9de5d9aca0a2 100644
--- a/doc/api/events.md
+++ b/doc/api/events.md
@@ -1171,6 +1171,10 @@ that a "possible EventEmitter memory leak" has been detected. For any single
 `EventEmitter`, the `emitter.getMaxListeners()` and `emitter.setMaxListeners()`
 methods can be used to temporarily avoid this warning:
 
+`defaultMaxListeners` has no effect on `AbortSignal` instances. While it is
+still possible to use [`emitter.setMaxListeners(n)`][] to set a warning limit
+for individual `AbortSignal` instances, per default `AbortSignal` instances will not warn.
+
 ```mjs
 import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
 const emitter = new EventEmitter();
diff --git a/lib/internal/abort_controller.js b/lib/internal/abort_controller.js
index b812f588c23e99..6dd40cb00e9950 100644
--- a/lib/internal/abort_controller.js
+++ b/lib/internal/abort_controller.js
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ const {
   kResistStopPropagation,
   kWeakHandler,
 } = require('internal/event_target');
+const { kMaxEventTargetListeners } = require('events');
 const {
   customInspectSymbol,
   kEmptyObject,
@@ -164,6 +165,7 @@ class AbortSignal extends EventTarget {
     }
     super();
 
+    this[kMaxEventTargetListeners] = 0;
     const {
       aborted = false,
       reason = undefined,
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-eventtarget-memoryleakwarning.js b/test/parallel/test-eventtarget-memoryleakwarning.js
index b2da553ab4cacb..2c907165d865d9 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-eventtarget-memoryleakwarning.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-eventtarget-memoryleakwarning.js
@@ -12,22 +12,22 @@ const { setTimeout } = require('timers/promises');
 common.expectWarning({
   MaxListenersExceededWarning: [
     ['Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 3 foo listeners added to ' +
-     'EventTarget. MaxListeners is 2. Use events.setMaxListeners() ' +
+        'EventTarget. MaxListeners is 2. Use events.setMaxListeners() ' +
      'to increase limit'],
     ['Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 3 foo listeners added to ' +
-     '[MessagePort [EventTarget]]. ' +
-     'MaxListeners is 2. ' +
-     'Use events.setMaxListeners() to increase ' +
+        '[MessagePort [EventTarget]]. ' +
+        'MaxListeners is 2. ' +
+        'Use events.setMaxListeners() to increase ' +
      'limit'],
     ['Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 3 foo listeners added to ' +
-     '[MessagePort [EventTarget]]. ' +
-     'MaxListeners is 2. ' +
-     'Use events.setMaxListeners() to increase ' +
+        '[MessagePort [EventTarget]]. ' +
+        'MaxListeners is 2. ' +
+        'Use events.setMaxListeners() to increase ' +
      'limit'],
-    ['Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 3 foo listeners added to ' +
-     '[AbortSignal]. ' +
-     'MaxListeners is 2. ' +
-     'Use events.setMaxListeners() to increase ' +
+    ['Possible EventTarget memory leak detected. 2 foo listeners added to ' +
+        '[AbortSignal]. ' +
+        'MaxListeners is 1. ' +
+        'Use events.setMaxListeners() to increase ' +
      'limit'],
   ],
 });
@@ -65,13 +65,25 @@ common.expectWarning({
   mc.port1.addEventListener('foo', () => {});
   mc.port1.addEventListener('foo', () => {});
   mc.port1.addEventListener('foo', () => {});
+}
 
+{
+  // No warning emitted because AbortController ignores `EventEmitter.defaultMaxListeners`
+  setMaxListeners(2);
   const ac = new AbortController();
   ac.signal.addEventListener('foo', () => {});
   ac.signal.addEventListener('foo', () => {});
   ac.signal.addEventListener('foo', () => {});
 }
 
+{
+  // Will still warn as `setMaxListeners` can still manually set a limit
+  const ac = new AbortController();
+  setMaxListeners(1, ac.signal);
+  ac.signal.addEventListener('foo', () => {});
+  ac.signal.addEventListener('foo', () => {});
+}
+
 {
   // It works for EventEmitters also
   const ee = new EventEmitter();