diff --git a/experimental/CHANGELOG.md b/experimental/CHANGELOG.md
index dca209e1a6..af2ea3a26e 100644
--- a/experimental/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/experimental/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ All notable changes to experimental packages in this project will be documented
 * fix(exporter-logs-otlp-http): set useHex to true [#3875](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/3875) @Nico385412
   fix(otlp-proto-exporter-base): add missing type import [#3937](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/3937) @pichlermarc
 * fix(example-opencensus-shim): avoid OpenCensus auto instrumentations [#3951](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/3951) @llc1123
+* fix(http-intrumentation): prevent request socket null from throwing uncaught error [#3858](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/3858) @aodysseos
 
 ### :books: (Refine Doc)
 
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-http/src/utils.ts b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-http/src/utils.ts
index a563e29471..a70dd3de85 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-http/src/utils.ts
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-http/src/utils.ts
@@ -403,11 +403,12 @@ export const getOutgoingRequestAttributesOnResponse = (
   response: IncomingMessage
 ): SpanAttributes => {
   const { statusCode, statusMessage, httpVersion, socket } = response;
-  const { remoteAddress, remotePort } = socket;
-  const attributes: SpanAttributes = {
-    [SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP]: remoteAddress,
-    [SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT]: remotePort,
-  };
+  const attributes: SpanAttributes = {};
+  if (socket) {
+    const { remoteAddress, remotePort } = socket;
+    attributes[SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP] = remoteAddress;
+    attributes[SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT] = remotePort;
+  }
   setResponseContentLengthAttribute(response, attributes);
 
   if (statusCode) {
@@ -529,17 +530,20 @@ export const getIncomingRequestAttributesOnResponse = (
   // since it may be detached from the response object in keep-alive mode
   const { socket } = request;
   const { statusCode, statusMessage } = response;
-  const { localAddress, localPort, remoteAddress, remotePort } = socket;
-  const rpcMetadata = getRPCMetadata(context.active());
 
-  const attributes: SpanAttributes = {
-    [SemanticAttributes.NET_HOST_IP]: localAddress,
-    [SemanticAttributes.NET_HOST_PORT]: localPort,
-    [SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP]: remoteAddress,
-    [SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT]: remotePort,
-    [SemanticAttributes.HTTP_STATUS_CODE]: statusCode,
-    [AttributeNames.HTTP_STATUS_TEXT]: (statusMessage || '').toUpperCase(),
-  };
+  const rpcMetadata = getRPCMetadata(context.active());
+  const attributes: SpanAttributes = {};
+  if (socket) {
+    const { localAddress, localPort, remoteAddress, remotePort } = socket;
+    attributes[SemanticAttributes.NET_HOST_IP] = localAddress;
+    attributes[SemanticAttributes.NET_HOST_PORT] = localPort;
+    attributes[SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP] = remoteAddress;
+    attributes[SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT] = remotePort;
+  }
+  attributes[SemanticAttributes.HTTP_STATUS_CODE] = statusCode;
+  attributes[AttributeNames.HTTP_STATUS_TEXT] = (
+    statusMessage || ''
+  ).toUpperCase();
 
   if (rpcMetadata?.type === RPCType.HTTP && rpcMetadata.route !== undefined) {
     attributes[SemanticAttributes.HTTP_ROUTE] = rpcMetadata.route;