diff --git a/.changeset/breezy-poets-grow.md b/.changeset/breezy-poets-grow.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..949ca16b2931
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/breezy-poets-grow.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@sveltejs/kit': patch
+---
+
+fix: prevent error attempting to modify immutable headers by creating a new `Response` object from the fetch response
diff --git a/packages/kit/src/runtime/server/respond.js b/packages/kit/src/runtime/server/respond.js
index 4ca265beab88..226d6e0175bd 100644
--- a/packages/kit/src/runtime/server/respond.js
+++ b/packages/kit/src/runtime/server/respond.js
@@ -607,7 +607,14 @@ export async function respond(request, options, manifest, state) {
 
 			// we can't load the endpoint from our own manifest,
 			// so we need to make an actual HTTP request
-			return await fetch(request);
+			const fetchResponse = await fetch(request);
+
+			// the headers for the response needs to be mutable so that cookies can be added
+			return new Response(fetchResponse.body, {
+				status: fetchResponse.status,
+				statusText: fetchResponse.statusText,
+				headers: new Headers(fetchResponse.headers)
+			});
 		} catch (e) {
 			// TODO if `e` is instead named `error`, some fucked up Vite transformation happens
 			// and I don't even know how to describe it. need to investigate at some point