diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 895b560af7ef..eb26c2a14328 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ## Changelog
 ##### Unreleased
 - Fully forced polyfilling of [the TC39 `Observable` proposal](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-observable) because of incompatibility with [the new WHATWG `Observable` proposal](https://github.com/WICG/observable)
+- Added an extra workaround of errors with exotic environment objects in `Symbol` polyfill, [#1289](https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/1289)
 - Compat data improvements:
   - V8 unshipped [`Iterator` helpers](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-iterator-helpers) because of [some Web compatibility issues](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-iterator-helpers/issues/286)
   - [`Array` grouping proposal](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-array-grouping) features marked as [supported from FF119](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792650#c9)
diff --git a/packages/core-js/modules/es.symbol.constructor.js b/packages/core-js/modules/es.symbol.constructor.js
index 4f91093ac00a..115eb0599d83 100644
--- a/packages/core-js/modules/es.symbol.constructor.js
+++ b/packages/core-js/modules/es.symbol.constructor.js
@@ -63,18 +63,20 @@ var WellKnownSymbolsStore = shared('wks');
 var USE_SETTER = !QObject || !QObject[PROTOTYPE] || !QObject[PROTOTYPE].findChild;
 
 // fallback for old Android, https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=687
-var setSymbolDescriptor = DESCRIPTORS && fails(function () {
-  return nativeObjectCreate(nativeDefineProperty({}, 'a', {
-    get: function () { return nativeDefineProperty(this, 'a', { value: 7 }).a; }
-  })).a !== 7;
-}) ? function (O, P, Attributes) {
+var fallbackDefineProperty = function (O, P, Attributes) {
   var ObjectPrototypeDescriptor = nativeGetOwnPropertyDescriptor(ObjectPrototype, P);
   if (ObjectPrototypeDescriptor) delete ObjectPrototype[P];
   nativeDefineProperty(O, P, Attributes);
   if (ObjectPrototypeDescriptor && O !== ObjectPrototype) {
     nativeDefineProperty(ObjectPrototype, P, ObjectPrototypeDescriptor);
   }
-} : nativeDefineProperty;
+};
+
+var setSymbolDescriptor = DESCRIPTORS && fails(function () {
+  return nativeObjectCreate(nativeDefineProperty({}, 'a', {
+    get: function () { return nativeDefineProperty(this, 'a', { value: 7 }).a; }
+  })).a !== 7;
+}) ? fallbackDefineProperty : nativeDefineProperty;
 
 var wrap = function (tag, description) {
   var symbol = AllSymbols[tag] = nativeObjectCreate(SymbolPrototype);
@@ -167,7 +169,12 @@ if (!NATIVE_SYMBOL) {
     var setter = function (value) {
       if (this === ObjectPrototype) call(setter, ObjectPrototypeSymbols, value);
       if (hasOwn(this, HIDDEN) && hasOwn(this[HIDDEN], tag)) this[HIDDEN][tag] = false;
-      setSymbolDescriptor(this, tag, createPropertyDescriptor(1, value));
+      var descriptor = createPropertyDescriptor(1, value);
+      try {
+        setSymbolDescriptor(this, tag, descriptor);
+      } catch (error) {
+        fallbackDefineProperty(this, tag, descriptor);
+      }
     };
     if (DESCRIPTORS && USE_SETTER) setSymbolDescriptor(ObjectPrototype, tag, { configurable: true, set: setter });
     return wrap(tag, description);