diff --git a/Lib/test/test_capi.py b/Lib/test/test_capi.py
index 72364747f8d..c649d3e681e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_capi.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_capi.py
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ class Test6012(unittest.TestCase):
 
 class EmbeddingTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(
+        sys.platform.startswith('win'),
+        "test doesn't work under Windows")
     def test_subinterps(self):
         # XXX only tested under Unix checkouts
         basepath = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f315c57b13c..28d574f2ef7 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -938,6 +938,8 @@ Extension Modules
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
+
 - Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
   the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
   error twice anymore if there is only one error.