diff --git a/tests/malloc_thread_safety/Makefile b/tests/malloc_thread_safety/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..21e686cefe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/malloc_thread_safety/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+include ../Makefile.tests_common
+
+USEMODULE += xtimer
+
+include $(RIOTBASE)/Makefile.include
+
+# Only newlib and picolib provide mallinfo
+ifeq (,$(filter newlib picolibc,$(USEMODULE)))
+  CFLAGS += -DNO_MALLINFO
+endif
diff --git a/tests/malloc_thread_safety/Makefile.ci b/tests/malloc_thread_safety/Makefile.ci
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ff454e3604
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/malloc_thread_safety/Makefile.ci
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+BOARD_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY := \
+    arduino-duemilanove \
+    arduino-nano \
+    arduino-uno \
+    atmega328p \
+    nucleo-l011k4 \
+    #
diff --git a/tests/malloc_thread_safety/main.c b/tests/malloc_thread_safety/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8c88e5086a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/malloc_thread_safety/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2020 Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
+ * General Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level
+ * directory for more details.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @ingroup     tests
+ * @{
+ *
+ * @file
+ * @brief       Test application for checking whether malloc is thread-safe
+ *
+ * @author      Marian Buschsieweke <marian.buschsieweke@ovgu.de>
+ * @}
+ */
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+/* keep stdatomic.h after stdint.h for buggy toolchains */
+#include <stdatomic.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#include "architecture.h"
+#include "clist.h"
+#include "sched.h"
+#include "test_utils/expect.h"
+#include "thread.h"
+#include "xtimer.h"
+
+#ifndef NO_MALLINFO
+#include <malloc.h>
+#endif
+
+static char WORD_ALIGNED t1_stack[THREAD_STACKSIZE_SMALL];
+static char WORD_ALIGNED t2_stack[THREAD_STACKSIZE_SMALL];
+static atomic_uint_least8_t is_running = ATOMIC_VAR_INIT(1);
+
+void * t1_t2_func(void *arg)
+{
+    (void)arg;
+    while (atomic_load(&is_running)) {
+        int *chunk1 = malloc(sizeof(int) * 1);
+        int *chunk2 = malloc(sizeof(int) * 2);
+        int *chunk3 = malloc(sizeof(int) * 4);
+        int *chunk4 = malloc(sizeof(int) * 8);
+        expect(chunk1 && chunk2 && chunk3 && chunk4);
+        free(chunk1);
+        free(chunk2);
+        free(chunk3);
+        free(chunk4);
+    }
+
+    return NULL;
+}
+
+static void evil_schedule_hack_dont_do_this_at_home(uint8_t prio)
+{
+    extern clist_node_t sched_runqueues[SCHED_PRIO_LEVELS];
+    clist_lpoprpush(&sched_runqueues[prio]);
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    kernel_pid_t t1, t2;
+    puts(
+        "Test Application for multithreaded use of malloc()\n"
+        "==================================================\n"
+        "\n"
+        "This test will run duelling threads allocating and freeing memory.\n"
+        "The running thread is interrupted every millisecond and the other\n"
+        "threads gets scheduled. Eventually, this should yield to memory\n"
+        "corruption unless proper guards are in place preventing them. After\n"
+        "ca. two seconds without crash, the test is considered as passing.\n"
+    );
+
+#ifndef NO_MALLINFO
+    struct mallinfo pre = mallinfo();
+#else
+    puts("WARNING: Use of mallinfo() disabled.\n");
+#endif
+
+    t1 = thread_create(t1_stack, sizeof(t1_stack), THREAD_PRIORITY_MAIN + 1,
+                       THREAD_CREATE_STACKTEST, t1_t2_func, NULL, "t1");
+    t2 = thread_create(t2_stack, sizeof(t2_stack), THREAD_PRIORITY_MAIN + 1,
+                       THREAD_CREATE_STACKTEST, t1_t2_func, NULL, "t2");
+    expect((t1 != KERNEL_PID_UNDEF) && (t2 != KERNEL_PID_UNDEF));
+
+    for (uint16_t i = 0; i < 2 * MS_PER_SEC; i++) {
+        xtimer_usleep(US_PER_MS);
+        /* shuffle t1 and t2 in their run queue. This should eventually hit
+         * during a call to malloc() or free() and disclose any missing
+         * guards */
+        evil_schedule_hack_dont_do_this_at_home(THREAD_PRIORITY_MAIN + 1);
+    }
+
+    /* Don't keep threads spinning */
+    atomic_store(&is_running, 0);
+    /* Give threads time to terminate */
+    xtimer_usleep(10 * US_PER_MS);
+
+#ifndef NO_MALLINFO
+    struct mallinfo post = mallinfo();
+
+    /* RIOT's board or arch support hopefully doesn't use malloc, so there
+     * should be zero bytes allocated prior to the first call to malloc() in
+     * this test. But let's be forgiving and just expect that the number of
+     * allocated bytes before and after the test is equal.
+     */
+    expect(pre.uordblks == post.uordblks);
+#endif
+    puts("TEST PASSED");
+
+    return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tests/malloc_thread_safety/tests/01-run.py b/tests/malloc_thread_safety/tests/01-run.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..60dd8f94f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/malloc_thread_safety/tests/01-run.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+#  Copyright (C) 2020 Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
+#
+# This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
+# General Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level
+# directory for more details.
+
+# @author      Marian Buschsieweke <marian.buschsieweke@ovgu.de>
+
+import sys
+from testrunner import run
+
+
+def testfunc(child):
+    child.expect("TEST PASSED")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(run(testfunc))