diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index fc5d4e0ba44..03b3c5e92ff 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Improvements
 
 * SOLR-14131: Add maxQueryLength option to DirectSolrSpellchecker. (Andy Webb via Bruno Roustant)
 
-* SOLR-13808: filter in BoolQParser and {"bool":{"filter":..}} in Query DSL are cached by default 
+* SOLR-13808: filter in BoolQParser and {"bool":{"filter":..}} in Query DSL are cached by default
   (Mikhail Khludnev)
 
 * SOLR-14129: Reuse Jackson ObjectMapper in AuditLoggerPlugin (janhoy)
@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-13089: Fix lsof edge cases in the solr CLI script (Martijn Koster via janhoy)
 
+* SOLR-14198: Nullpointer exception in AuditEvent when initialized from AuthorizationContext (janhoy)
+
+* SOLR-6613: TextField.analyzeMultiTerm does not throw an exception when Analyzer returns no terms. (Bruno Roustant)
+
 * SOLR-14192: Race condition between SchemaManager and ZkIndexSchemaReader. (ab)
 
 * SOLR-12859: Fixed DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory to work with BasicAuth and other auth plugins
@@ -274,7 +278,7 @@ New Features
 
 * SOLR-13912: Add 'countvals' aggregation in JSON FacetModule (hossman, Munendra S N)
 
-* SOLR-12217: Support shards.preference in SolrJ for single shard collections. The parameter 
+* SOLR-12217: Support shards.preference in SolrJ for single shard collections. The parameter
   is now used by the CloudSolrClient and Streaming Expressions. (Houston Putman, Tomas Fernandez-Lobbe)
 
 * SOLR-14043: Allow the precision Stream Evaluator to operate on matrices (Joel bernstein)
@@ -317,7 +321,7 @@ Improvements
 * SOLR-13957: Add sensible defaults for the facet, random, facet2D, timeseries, stats
   and update Streaming Expressions (Joel Bernstein)
 
-* SOLR-13904: Analytic component abandons requests exceedig a limit passed via timeAllowed parameter. 
+* SOLR-13904: Analytic component abandons requests exceedig a limit passed via timeAllowed parameter.
   (Houston Putman, Mikhail Khludnev).
 
 * SOLR-13970: Fail the request when collapsing or expand is used with Grouping. (Erick Erickson, Joel Bernstein, Munendra S N)
@@ -389,8 +393,6 @@ Bug Fixes
   affects splits triggered by the autoscale framework, which use async mode.
   (Megan Carey, Andy Vuong, Bilal Waheed, Ilan Ginzburg, yonik)
 
-* SOLR-6613: TextField.analyzeMultiTerm does not throw an exception when Analyzer returns no terms. (Bruno Roustant)
-
 Other Changes
 ---------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/security/AuditEvent.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/security/AuditEvent.java
index adcfa5b7bdc..63bc4cd9c75 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/security/AuditEvent.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/security/AuditEvent.java
@@ -170,9 +170,11 @@ public class AuditEvent {
         .stream().map(r -> r.collectionName).collect(Collectors.toList());
     setResource(authorizationContext.getResource());
     this.requestType = RequestType.convertType(authorizationContext.getRequestType());
-    authorizationContext.getParams().forEach(p -> {
-      this.solrParams.put(p.getKey(), Arrays.asList(p.getValue()));
-    });
+    if (authorizationContext.getParams() != null) {
+      authorizationContext.getParams().forEach(p -> {
+        this.solrParams.put(p.getKey(), Arrays.asList(p.getValue()));
+      });
+    }
   }
 
   /**