diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 07949054db3..1f6f5da93fd 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -264,6 +264,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3148. Allow CORS related headers to passthrough in WebAppProxyServlet.
     (Varun Saxena via devaraj)
 
+    YARN-3834. Scrub debug logging of tokens during resource localization.
+    (Chris Nauroth via xgong)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     YARN-3339. TestDockerContainerExecutor should pull a single image and not
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/ResourceLocalizationService.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/ResourceLocalizationService.java
index 54c31c2a88d..d6e0903a248 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/ResourceLocalizationService.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/ResourceLocalizationService.java
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor;
 import java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
+import org.apache.commons.codec.digest.DigestUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience.Private;
@@ -1208,7 +1209,7 @@ public class ResourceLocalizationService extends CompositeService
         if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
           for (Token<? extends TokenIdentifier> tk : credentials
               .getAllTokens()) {
-            LOG.debug(tk.getService() + " : " + tk.encodeToUrlString());
+            LOG.debug(tk + " : " + buildTokenFingerprint(tk));
           }
         }
         if (UserGroupInformation.isSecurityEnabled()) {
@@ -1228,6 +1229,32 @@ public class ResourceLocalizationService extends CompositeService
 
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Returns a fingerprint of a token.  The fingerprint is suitable for use in
+   * logging, because it cannot be used to determine the secret.  The
+   * fingerprint is built using the first 10 bytes of a SHA-256 hash of the
+   * string encoding of the token.  The returned string contains the hex
+   * representation of each byte, delimited by a space.
+   *
+   * @param tk token
+   * @return token fingerprint
+   * @throws IOException if there is an I/O error
+   */
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  static String buildTokenFingerprint(Token<? extends TokenIdentifier> tk)
+      throws IOException {
+    char[] digest = DigestUtils.sha256Hex(tk.encodeToUrlString()).toCharArray();
+    StringBuilder fingerprint = new StringBuilder();
+    for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
+      if (i > 0) {
+        fingerprint.append(' ');
+      }
+      fingerprint.append(digest[2 * i]);
+      fingerprint.append(digest[2 * i + 1]);
+    }
+    return fingerprint.toString();
+  }
+
   static class CacheCleanup extends Thread {
 
     private final Dispatcher dispatcher;
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/TestResourceLocalizationService.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/TestResourceLocalizationService.java
index a02b2b09bc5..c515506ed95 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/TestResourceLocalizationService.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/TestResourceLocalizationService.java
@@ -2035,7 +2035,7 @@ public class TestResourceLocalizationService {
   }
 
   private static Container getMockContainer(ApplicationId appId, int id,
-      String user) {
+      String user) throws IOException {
     Container c = mock(Container.class);
     ApplicationAttemptId appAttemptId =
         BuilderUtils.newApplicationAttemptId(appId, 1);
@@ -2043,7 +2043,13 @@ public class TestResourceLocalizationService {
     when(c.getUser()).thenReturn(user);
     when(c.getContainerId()).thenReturn(cId);
     Credentials creds = new Credentials();
-    creds.addToken(new Text("tok" + id), getToken(id));
+    Token<? extends TokenIdentifier> tk = getToken(id);
+    String fingerprint = ResourceLocalizationService.buildTokenFingerprint(tk);
+    assertNotNull(fingerprint);
+    assertTrue(
+        "Expected token fingerprint of 10 hex bytes delimited by space.",
+        fingerprint.matches("^(([0-9a-f]){2} ){9}([0-9a-f]){2}$"));
+    creds.addToken(new Text("tok" + id), tk);
     when(c.getCredentials()).thenReturn(creds);
     when(c.toString()).thenReturn(cId.toString());
     return c;