diff --git a/CHANGELOG.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
index 7ce83f3ef..6314a72d9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/compare/v1.14.0...master[View commits]
 - Discard exit spans shorter or equal than `ELASTIC_APM_EXIT_SPAN_MIN_DURATION`. Defaults to `1ms`. {pull}1138[#(1138)]
 - module/apmprometheus: add support for mapping prometheus histograms. {pull}1145[#(1145)]
 - Fixed a bug where errors in cloud metadata discovery could lead to the process aborting during initialisation {pull}1158[#(1158)]
+- Fixed a data race related to HTTP request header sanitisation {pull}1159[#(1159)]
 
 [[release-notes-1.x]]
 === Go Agent version 1.x
diff --git a/sanitizer.go b/sanitizer.go
index 6168c0b76..e80d485d4 100644
--- a/sanitizer.go
+++ b/sanitizer.go
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ import (
 
 const redacted = "[REDACTED]"
 
+var redactedValues = []string{redacted}
+
 // sanitizeRequest sanitizes HTTP request data, redacting the
 // values of cookies, headers and forms whose corresponding keys
 // match any of the given wildcard patterns.
@@ -36,13 +38,11 @@ func sanitizeRequest(r *model.Request, matchers wildcard.Matchers) {
 	}
 	sanitizeHeaders(r.Headers, matchers)
 	if r.Body != nil && r.Body.Form != nil {
-		for key, values := range r.Body.Form {
+		for key := range r.Body.Form {
 			if !matchers.MatchAny(key) {
 				continue
 			}
-			for i := range values {
-				values[i] = redacted
-			}
+			r.Body.Form[key] = redactedValues
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -60,7 +60,10 @@ func sanitizeHeaders(headers model.Headers, matchers wildcard.Matchers) {
 		if !matchers.MatchAny(h.Key) || len(h.Values) == 0 {
 			continue
 		}
-		h.Values = h.Values[:1]
-		h.Values[0] = redacted
+		// h.Values may hold the original value slice from a
+		// net/http.Request, so it's important that we do not
+		// modify it. Instead, just replace the values with a
+		// shared, immutable slice.
+		h.Values = redactedValues
 	}
 }