diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ed79148658..2646a4d8ef 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ## main
 
 ### ✨ Features and improvements
+- Catches network fetching errors such as CORS, DNS or malformed URL as actual `AJAXError` to expose HTTP request details to the `"error"` event (https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js/pull/4822)
 - _...Add new stuff here..._
 
 ### 🐞 Bug fixes
diff --git a/src/util/ajax.ts b/src/util/ajax.ts
index 3ac99989db..730dc63385 100644
--- a/src/util/ajax.ts
+++ b/src/util/ajax.ts
@@ -155,7 +155,16 @@ async function makeFetchRequest(requestParameters: RequestParameters, abortContr
         request.headers.set('Accept', 'application/json');
     }
 
-    const response = await fetch(request);
+    let response: Response;
+    try {
+        response = await fetch(request);
+    } catch (e) {
+        // When the error is due to CORS policy, DNS issue or malformed URL, the fetch call does not resolve but throws a generic TypeError instead.
+        // It is preferable to throw an AJAXError so that the Map event "error" can catch it and still have
+        // access to the faulty url. In such case, we provide the arbitrary HTTP error code of `0`.
+        throw new AJAXError(0, e.message, requestParameters.url, new Blob());
+    }
+
     if (!response.ok) {
         const body = await response.blob();
         throw new AJAXError(response.status, response.statusText, requestParameters.url, body);
diff --git a/test/build/min.test.ts b/test/build/min.test.ts
index 4f8c99fac3..712295c7c4 100644
--- a/test/build/min.test.ts
+++ b/test/build/min.test.ts
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ describe('test min build', () => {
         const decreaseQuota = 4096;
 
         // feel free to update this value after you've checked that it has changed on purpose :-)
-        const expectedBytes = 889658;
+        const expectedBytes = 889777;
 
         expect(actualBytes).toBeLessThan(expectedBytes + increaseQuota);
         expect(actualBytes).toBeGreaterThan(expectedBytes - decreaseQuota);