diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index d2d6276bd76..7578e03185d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -599,6 +599,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/
     (Ravi Prakash via stevel)
 
+    HADOOP-7662. Fixed logs servlet to use the pathspec '/*' instead of '/'
+    for correct filtering. (Thomas Graves via vinodkv)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer.java
index de506c91b2e..6ad3703dde6 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer.java
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ protected void addDefaultApps(ContextHandlerCollection parent,
     if (logDir != null) {
       Context logContext = new Context(parent, "/logs");
       logContext.setResourceBase(logDir);
-      logContext.addServlet(AdminAuthorizedServlet.class, "/");
+      logContext.addServlet(AdminAuthorizedServlet.class, "/*");
       logContext.setDisplayName("logs");
       setContextAttributes(logContext, conf);
       defaultContexts.put(logContext, true);