diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3cd0dcfc86d6..8e197ef0ac68 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
     (Ilia Alshanetsky)
   . Fixed bug GH-25195 (smm_shared_globals left dangling without an
     SHM backend). (Lazizbek Ergashev)
+  . Fixed heap corruption on shutdown of a Windows process that fell back to
+    the file cache. (Kamil Tekiela)
 
 - SOAP:
   . Fixed bug GH-25267 (NULL dereference in to_xml_any() with integer key).
diff --git a/ext/opcache/ZendAccelerator.c b/ext/opcache/ZendAccelerator.c
index c1248404270d..f606d1c23ccb 100644
--- a/ext/opcache/ZendAccelerator.c
+++ b/ext/opcache/ZendAccelerator.c
@@ -3549,7 +3549,13 @@ void accel_shutdown(void)
 		orig_post_shutdown_cb = zend_post_shutdown_cb;
 		zend_post_shutdown_cb = accel_post_shutdown;
 	} else {
-		free(accel_shared_globals);
+#if ENABLE_FILE_CACHE_FALLBACK
+		/* A fallback process maps accel_shared_globals from SHM; it did not allocate it. */
+		if (!fallback_process)
+#endif
+		{
+			free(accel_shared_globals);
+		}
 	}
 
 	zend_compile_file = accelerator_orig_compile_file;
diff --git a/ext/opcache/tests/file_cache_fallback_win32.phpt b/ext/opcache/tests/file_cache_fallback_win32.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..07b5d01a6cd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/opcache/tests/file_cache_fallback_win32.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+--TEST--
+Shutdown of a process that fell back to the file cache must not free the SHM globals
+--EXTENSIONS--
+opcache
+--INI--
+opcache.enable=1
+opcache.enable_cli=1
+opcache.file_cache_only=0
+--SKIPIF--
+<?php
+if (PHP_OS_FAMILY !== 'Windows') die('skip Windows only');
+$dll = 'php' . PHP_MAJOR_VERSION . (PHP_ZTS ? 'ts' : '') . (PHP_DEBUG ? '_debug' : '') . '.dll';
+if (!file_exists(dirname(PHP_BINARY) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $dll)) die("skip $dll not found next to PHP_BINARY");
+?>
+--FILE--
+<?php
+/* This process holds the SHM. A child run from a copy of the PHP binary
+ * and core DLL gets the core DLL at another address (ASLR), so it cannot
+ * reattach and falls back to the file cache. */
+$dll = 'php' . PHP_MAJOR_VERSION . (PHP_ZTS ? 'ts' : '') . (PHP_DEBUG ? '_debug' : '') . '.dll';
+$srcDir = dirname(PHP_BINARY);
+$base = sys_get_temp_dir() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'opcache_file_cache_fallback_win32';
+$binDir = $base . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'bin';
+$cacheDir = $base . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'cache';
+@mkdir($binDir, 0777, true);
+@mkdir($cacheDir, 0777, true);
+copy(PHP_BINARY, $binDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename(PHP_BINARY));
+copy($srcDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $dll, $binDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $dll);
+
+$args = [
+    $binDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename(PHP_BINARY),
+    '-n',
+    '-d', 'extension_dir="' . ini_get('extension_dir') . '"',
+];
+if (file_exists(ini_get('extension_dir') . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'php_opcache.dll')) {
+    $args[] = '-d';
+    $args[] = 'zend_extension=opcache';
+}
+foreach (['opcache.memory_consumption', 'opcache.jit', 'opcache.jit_buffer_size'] as $name) {
+    $args[] = '-d';
+    $args[] = $name . '=' . ini_get($name);
+}
+array_push($args,
+    '-d', 'opcache.enable=1',
+    '-d', 'opcache.enable_cli=1',
+    '-d', 'opcache.file_cache="' . $cacheDir . '"',
+    '-d', 'opcache.file_cache_fallback=1',
+    '-r', 'var_dump(opcache_get_status(false)["file_cache_only"]);'
+);
+
+/* Other DLLs the core DLL depends on are still found next to PHP_BINARY. */
+$env = getenv();
+$env['PATH'] = $srcDir . PATH_SEPARATOR . ($env['PATH'] ?? '');
+
+$proc = proc_open($args, [1 => ['pipe', 'w'], 2 => ['pipe', 'w']], $pipes, null, $env);
+echo stream_get_contents($pipes[1]);
+echo stream_get_contents($pipes[2]);
+printf("exit code: 0x%08X\n", proc_close($proc) & 0xFFFFFFFF);
+?>
+--CLEAN--
+<?php
+$base = sys_get_temp_dir() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'opcache_file_cache_fallback_win32';
+foreach (new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($base, FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS), RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST) as $f) {
+    $f->isDir() ? @rmdir($f->getPathname()) : @unlink($f->getPathname());
+}
+@rmdir($base);
+?>
+--EXPECT--
+bool(true)
+exit code: 0x00000000
diff --git a/ext/opcache/tests/gh18417.phpt b/ext/opcache/tests/gh18417.phpt
index f4f430827b3a..65a5eaf23268 100644
--- a/ext/opcache/tests/gh18417.phpt
+++ b/ext/opcache/tests/gh18417.phpt
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 --TEST--
 GH-18417 (Windows SHM reattachment fails when increasing memory_consumption or jit_buffer_size)
+--EXTENSIONS--
+opcache
+--INI--
+opcache.enable=1
+opcache.enable_cli=1
+opcache.file_cache_only=0
 --SKIPIF--
 <?php
-$extDir = ini_get('extension_dir');
-if (!file_exists($extDir . '/php_opcache.dll')) {
-    die('skip Opcache DLL not found in extension_dir (Windows-only)');
-}
+if (PHP_OS_FAMILY !== 'Windows') die('skip Windows only');
 ?>
 --FILE--
 <?php