diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 68951bb3b8e..d34120c257c 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -616,6 +616,8 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7684. Added init.d script for jobhistory server and
     secondary namenode. (Eric Yang)
 
+    HADOOP-7715. Removed unnecessary security logger configuration. (Eric Yang)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/log4j.properties b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/log4j.properties
index 758662b54c0..49d1bbc09de 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/log4j.properties
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/log4j.properties
@@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ log4j.appender.DRFAS.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %p %c: %m%n
 #new logger
 # Define some default values that can be overridden by system properties
 hadoop.security.logger=INFO,console
-log4j.category.SecurityLogger=${hadoop.security.logger}
 
 # hdfs audit logging