diff --git a/doc/api/cli.md b/doc/api/cli.md
index 972f313f777c19..e9c017bb822299 100644
--- a/doc/api/cli.md
+++ b/doc/api/cli.md
@@ -2809,6 +2809,13 @@ environment variables.
 
 See `SSL_CERT_DIR` and `SSL_CERT_FILE`.
 
+### `--use-system-ca`
+
+Node.js uses the trusted CA certificates present in the system store along with
+the `--use-bundled-ca`, `--use-openssl-ca` options.
+
+This option is available to macOS only.
+
 ### `--use-largepages=mode`
 
 <!-- YAML
@@ -3227,6 +3234,7 @@ one is included in the list below.
 * `--use-bundled-ca`
 * `--use-largepages`
 * `--use-openssl-ca`
+* `--use-system-ca`
 * `--v8-pool-size`
 * `--watch-path`
 * `--watch-preserve-output`
diff --git a/node.gypi b/node.gypi
index 7ae62bd7e7134a..a253215b33f955 100644
--- a/node.gypi
+++ b/node.gypi
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
     [ 'OS=="mac"', {
       # linking Corefoundation is needed since certain macOS debugging tools
       # like Instruments require it for some features
-      'libraries': [ '-framework CoreFoundation' ],
+      'libraries': [ '-framework CoreFoundation -framework Security' ],
       'defines!': [
         'NODE_PLATFORM="mac"',
       ],
diff --git a/src/crypto/crypto_context.cc b/src/crypto/crypto_context.cc
index fa96b8d7a51d46..bf01821c44dca0 100644
--- a/src/crypto/crypto_context.cc
+++ b/src/crypto/crypto_context.cc
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
 #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_ENGINE
 #include <openssl/engine.h>
 #endif  // !OPENSSL_NO_ENGINE
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+#include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h>
+#include <Security/Security.h>
+#endif
+
 
 namespace node {
 
@@ -222,6 +227,277 @@ unsigned long LoadCertsFromFile(  // NOLINT(runtime/int)
   }
 }
 
+enum TrustStatus { UNSPECIFIED, TRUSTED, DISTRUSTED };
+
+std::string stdStringFromCF(CFStringRef s) {
+  if (auto fastCString = CFStringGetCStringPtr(s, kCFStringEncodingUTF8)) {
+    return std::string(fastCString);
+  }
+  auto utf16length = CFStringGetLength(s);
+  auto maxUtf8len = CFStringGetMaximumSizeForEncoding(utf16length,
+                                                      kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
+  std::string converted(maxUtf8len, '\0');
+
+  CFStringGetCString(s, converted.data(), maxUtf8len, kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
+  converted.resize(std::strlen(converted.data()));
+
+  return converted;
+}
+
+std::string getCertIssuer(X509* cert) {
+  ClearErrorOnReturn clearErrorOnReturn;
+  if (cert == nullptr) return {};
+  BIO* bio = BIO_new(BIO_s_mem());
+  if (bio == nullptr) {
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+  if (X509_NAME_print_ex(
+          bio, X509_get_issuer_name(cert), 0, XN_FLAG_ONELINE) <=
+      0) {
+    return {};
+      }
+
+  const int resultLen = BIO_pending(bio);
+  char* issuer = reinterpret_cast<char *>(calloc(resultLen + 1, 1));
+  BIO_read(bio, issuer, resultLen);
+  BIO_free_all(bio);
+
+  std::string str(issuer);
+  return str;
+}
+
+std::string getCertSubject(X509* cert) {
+  ClearErrorOnReturn clearErrorOnReturn;
+  if (cert == nullptr) return {};
+  BIO* bio = BIO_new(BIO_s_mem());
+  if (bio == nullptr) {
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+  if (X509_NAME_print_ex(
+          bio, X509_get_subject_name(cert), 0, XN_FLAG_ONELINE) <=
+      0) {
+    return {};
+      }
+
+  const int resultLen = BIO_pending(bio);
+  char* issuer = reinterpret_cast<char *>(calloc(resultLen + 1, 1));
+  BIO_read(bio, issuer, resultLen);
+  BIO_free_all(bio);
+
+  std::string str(issuer);
+  return str;
+}
+
+bool IsSelfSigned(X509* cert) {
+  auto issuerName = getCertIssuer(cert);
+  auto subjectName = getCertSubject(cert);
+
+  if (issuerName == subjectName) {
+//    fprintf(stderr, "Self signed\n");
+    return true;
+  } else {
+//    fprintf(stderr, "NOT Self signed\n");
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+enum TrustStatus IsTrustDictionaryTrustedForPolicy(
+                                       CFDictionaryRef trust_dict
+                                    ) {
+  // Trust settings may be scoped to a single application
+  // skip as this is not supported
+  if (CFDictionaryContainsKey(trust_dict, kSecTrustSettingsApplication)) {
+    return UNSPECIFIED;
+  }
+
+  // Trust settings may be scoped using policy-specific constraints. For
+  // example, SSL trust settings might be scoped to a single hostname, or EAP
+  // settings specific to a particular WiFi network.
+  // As this is not presently supported, skip any policy-specific trust
+  // settings.
+  if (CFDictionaryContainsKey(trust_dict, kSecTrustSettingsPolicyString)) {
+    return UNSPECIFIED;
+  }
+
+  int trust_settings_result = kSecTrustSettingsResultTrustRoot;
+  if (CFDictionaryContainsKey(trust_dict, kSecTrustSettingsResult)) {
+    CFNumberRef trust_settings_result_ref = (CFNumberRef) CFDictionaryGetValue(
+        trust_dict, kSecTrustSettingsResult);
+
+    CFNumberGetValue(trust_settings_result_ref, kCFNumberIntType,
+                     &trust_settings_result);
+
+    if (!trust_settings_result_ref) {
+      return UNSPECIFIED;
+    }
+
+    if (trust_settings_result == kSecTrustSettingsResultDeny) {
+//      fprintf(stderr, "Returning distrusted\n");
+      return DISTRUSTED;
+    }
+//    fprintf(stderr, "Checking if matches trust root\n");
+    return trust_settings_result == kSecTrustSettingsResultTrustRoot ||
+           trust_settings_result == kSecTrustSettingsResultTrustAsRoot ?
+               TRUSTED : UNSPECIFIED;
+  }
+
+  return UNSPECIFIED;
+}
+
+bool IsTrustSettingsTrustedForPolicy(CFArrayRef trustSettings,
+                                            bool isSelfIssued) {
+  // The trustSettings parameter can return a valid but empty CFArrayRef.
+  // This empty trust-settings array means “always trust this certificate”
+  // with an overall trust setting for the certificate of
+  // kSecTrustSettingsResultTrustRoot
+  if (CFArrayGetCount(trustSettings) == 0) {
+    if (isSelfIssued) {
+      return true;
+    }
+  }
+
+  CFIndex trustSettingsCount = CFArrayGetCount(trustSettings);
+
+  for (CFIndex i = 0; i < trustSettingsCount ; ++i) {
+    CFDictionaryRef trustDict = (CFDictionaryRef) CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(
+        trustSettings, i);
+
+    enum TrustStatus trust = IsTrustDictionaryTrustedForPolicy(trustDict);
+
+    if (trust == DISTRUSTED) {
+      return false;
+    } else if (trust == TRUSTED) {
+      return true;
+    }
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+bool IsCertificateTrustValid(SecCertificateRef ref) {
+  SecTrustRef secTrust = nullptr;
+  CFMutableArrayRef subjCerts = CFArrayCreateMutable(
+      nullptr, 1, &kCFTypeArrayCallBacks);
+  CFArraySetValueAtIndex(subjCerts, 0, ref);
+
+  SecPolicyRef policy = SecPolicyCreateBasicX509();
+  OSStatus ortn = SecTrustCreateWithCertificates(subjCerts, policy, &secTrust);
+  bool result = false;
+  if (ortn) {
+    /* should never happen */
+    goto errOut;
+  }
+
+  result = SecTrustEvaluateWithError(secTrust, nullptr);
+//  fprintf(stderr, "Validation result: %s\n", result ? "true" : "false");
+  errOut:
+     if (policy) {
+       CFRelease(policy);
+     }
+  if (secTrust) {
+    CFRelease(secTrust);
+  }
+  if (subjCerts) {
+    CFRelease(subjCerts);
+  }
+  return result;
+}
+
+bool IsCertificateTrustedForPolicy(X509* cert, SecCertificateRef ref) {
+  OSStatus err;
+
+  for (const auto& trust_domain :
+       {kSecTrustSettingsDomainUser, kSecTrustSettingsDomainAdmin}) {
+    CFArrayRef trustSettings;
+    err = SecTrustSettingsCopyTrustSettings(ref, trust_domain, &trustSettings);
+
+    bool isSelfSigned = IsSelfSigned(cert);
+
+    if (err == errSecSuccess && trustSettings != nullptr) {
+      return IsTrustSettingsTrustedForPolicy(trustSettings, isSelfSigned);
+    }
+
+    // An empty trust settings array isn’t the same as no trust settings,
+    // where the trustSettings parameter returns NULL.
+    // No trust-settings array means
+    // “this certificate must be verifiable using a known trusted certificate”.
+    if (trustSettings == nullptr) {
+      return IsCertificateTrustValid(ref);
+    }
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+void ReadMacOSKeychainCertificates(
+    std::vector<std::string>* system_root_certificates) {
+  CFTypeRef searchKeys[] = { kSecClass, kSecMatchLimit, kSecReturnRef };
+  CFTypeRef searchValues[] = {
+      kSecClassCertificate, kSecMatchLimitAll, kCFBooleanTrue };
+  CFDictionaryRef search = CFDictionaryCreate(
+      kCFAllocatorDefault, searchKeys, searchValues, 3,
+      &kCFTypeDictionaryKeyCallBacks, &kCFTypeDictionaryValueCallBacks);
+
+  CFArrayRef currAnchors = nullptr;
+  OSStatus ortn = SecItemCopyMatching(
+      search,
+      reinterpret_cast<CFTypeRef *>(&currAnchors));
+
+  if (ortn) {
+      fprintf(stderr, "Failed: %d\n", ortn);
+  }
+
+  CFIndex count = CFArrayGetCount(currAnchors);
+
+  std::vector<X509*> system_root_certificates_X509;
+  for (int i = 0; i < count ; ++i) {
+    SecCertificateRef certRef = (SecCertificateRef) CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(
+        currAnchors, i);
+
+    CFStringRef certSummary = SecCertificateCopySubjectSummary(certRef);
+    std::string stdCertSummary = stdStringFromCF(certSummary);
+
+      CFDataRef derData = SecCertificateCopyData(certRef);
+      if (!derData) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: SecCertificateCopyData failed\n");
+        continue;
+      }
+      auto dataBufferPointer = CFDataGetBytePtr(derData);
+
+      X509* cert =
+        d2i_X509(nullptr, &dataBufferPointer, CFDataGetLength(derData));
+      CFRelease(derData);
+    bool isValid = IsCertificateTrustedForPolicy(cert, certRef);
+    if (isValid) {
+      system_root_certificates_X509.emplace_back(cert);
+    }
+  }
+
+
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < system_root_certificates_X509.size(); i++) {
+    BIOPointer bio(BIO_new(BIO_s_mem()));
+    CHECK(bio);
+
+    BUF_MEM* mem = nullptr;
+    int result = PEM_write_bio_X509(bio.get(),
+                                    system_root_certificates_X509[i]);
+    if (!result) {
+      fprintf(stderr, "Warning: PEM_write_bio_X509 failed with: %d", result);
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    BIO_get_mem_ptr(bio.get(), &mem);
+    std::string certificate_string_pem(mem->data, mem->length);
+
+    system_root_certificates->emplace_back(certificate_string_pem);
+  }
+}
+
+void ReadSystemStoreCertificates(
+    std::vector<std::string>* system_root_certificates) {
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+  ReadMacOSKeychainCertificates(system_root_certificates);
+#endif
+}
+
 X509_STORE* NewRootCertStore() {
   static std::vector<X509*> root_certs_vector;
   static bool root_certs_vector_loaded = false;
@@ -230,9 +506,21 @@ X509_STORE* NewRootCertStore() {
 
   if (!root_certs_vector_loaded) {
     if (per_process::cli_options->ssl_openssl_cert_store == false) {
+      std::vector<std::string> combined_root_certs;
+
+      for (size_t i = 0; i < arraysize(root_certs); i++) {
+        combined_root_certs.emplace_back(root_certs[i]);
+      }
+
+      if (per_process::cli_options->use_system_ca) {
+        ReadSystemStoreCertificates(&combined_root_certs);
+      }
+
       for (size_t i = 0; i < arraysize(root_certs); i++) {
         X509* x509 = PEM_read_bio_X509(
-            NodeBIO::NewFixed(root_certs[i], strlen(root_certs[i])).get(),
+            NodeBIO::NewFixed(combined_root_certs[i].data(),
+                              combined_root_certs[i].length())
+                .get(),
             nullptr,  // no re-use of X509 structure
             NoPasswordCallback,
             nullptr);  // no callback data
@@ -282,19 +570,31 @@ X509_STORE* NewRootCertStore() {
 
 void GetRootCertificates(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
   Environment* env = Environment::GetCurrent(args);
-  Local<Value> result[arraysize(root_certs)];
+  std::vector<std::string> combined_root_certs;
 
   for (size_t i = 0; i < arraysize(root_certs); i++) {
+    combined_root_certs.emplace_back(root_certs[i]);
+  }
+
+  if (per_process::cli_options->use_system_ca) {
+    ReadSystemStoreCertificates(&combined_root_certs);
+  }
+
+  std::vector<Local<Value>> result(combined_root_certs.size());
+
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < combined_root_certs.size(); i++) {
     if (!String::NewFromOneByte(
             env->isolate(),
-            reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t*>(root_certs[i]))
-            .ToLocal(&result[i])) {
+            reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t*>(combined_root_certs[i].data()),
+                      v8::NewStringType::kNormal,
+                      combined_root_certs[i].size())
+                      .ToLocal(&result[i])) {
       return;
     }
   }
 
   args.GetReturnValue().Set(
-      Array::New(env->isolate(), result, arraysize(root_certs)));
+      Array::New(env->isolate(), result.data(), combined_root_certs.size()));
 }
 
 bool SecureContext::HasInstance(Environment* env, const Local<Value>& value) {
diff --git a/src/node_options.cc b/src/node_options.cc
index 8d529651342ba6..d10b1379ac3056 100644
--- a/src/node_options.cc
+++ b/src/node_options.cc
@@ -1115,6 +1115,10 @@ PerProcessOptionsParser::PerProcessOptionsParser(
             ,
             &PerProcessOptions::use_openssl_ca,
             kAllowedInEnvvar);
+  AddOption("--use-system-ca",
+            "use system's CA store",
+            &PerProcessOptions::use_system_ca,
+            kAllowedInEnvvar);
   AddOption("--use-bundled-ca",
             "use bundled CA store"
 #if !defined(NODE_OPENSSL_CERT_STORE)
diff --git a/src/node_options.h b/src/node_options.h
index 9563f90f41f7d8..9375fe55fd6c5b 100644
--- a/src/node_options.h
+++ b/src/node_options.h
@@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ class PerProcessOptions : public Options {
   bool ssl_openssl_cert_store = false;
 #endif
   bool use_openssl_ca = false;
+  bool use_system_ca = false;
   bool use_bundled_ca = false;
   bool enable_fips_crypto = false;
   bool force_fips_crypto = false;
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-cli-node-options.js b/test/parallel/test-cli-node-options.js
index 69bf136559c1a8..f30fb835988944 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-cli-node-options.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-cli-node-options.js
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ if (common.hasCrypto) {
   expectNoWorker('--use-bundled-ca', 'B\n');
   if (!common.hasOpenSSL3)
     expectNoWorker('--openssl-config=_ossl_cfg', 'B\n');
+  if (common.isMacOS) {
+    expectNoWorker('--use-system-ca', 'B\n');
+  }
 }
 
 // V8 options
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-cli-node-print-help.js b/test/parallel/test-cli-node-print-help.js
index 92abe816ffe46f..4075a6c9b609b2 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-cli-node-print-help.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-cli-node-print-help.js
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ function validateNodePrintHelp() {
   const cliHelpOptions = [
     { compileConstant: HAVE_OPENSSL,
       flags: [ '--openssl-config=...', '--tls-cipher-list=...',
-               '--use-bundled-ca', '--use-openssl-ca',
+               '--use-bundled-ca', '--use-openssl-ca', '--use-system-ca',
                '--enable-fips', '--force-fips' ] },
     { compileConstant: NODE_HAVE_I18N_SUPPORT,
       flags: [ '--icu-data-dir=...', 'NODE_ICU_DATA' ] },
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-process-env-allowed-flags-are-documented.js b/test/parallel/test-process-env-allowed-flags-are-documented.js
index 2a40a821314ff3..af6ddd360bffad 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-process-env-allowed-flags-are-documented.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-process-env-allowed-flags-are-documented.js
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ const conditionalOpts = [
         '--tls-cipher-list',
         '--use-bundled-ca',
         '--use-openssl-ca',
+        common.isMacOS ? '--use-system-ca' : '',
         '--secure-heap',
         '--secure-heap-min',
         '--enable-fips',