diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6115fb0fc..4547c357e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Canonical reference for changes, improvements, and bugfixes for Boundary.
   could be written to stdout along with a message that they could not
   successfully be evented instead of being written to the event log
   ([PR](https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary/pull/2544))
+* workers: Fixed a panic that can happen in certain situations
+  ([PR](https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary/pull/2553))
 
 ## 0.11.0 (2022/09/27)
 
diff --git a/internal/daemon/worker/session/session.go b/internal/daemon/worker/session/session.go
index 1f8e34042..7562f7b4a 100644
--- a/internal/daemon/worker/session/session.go
+++ b/internal/daemon/worker/session/session.go
@@ -313,6 +313,8 @@ func (s *sess) RequestConnectConnection(ctx context.Context, info *pbs.ConnectCo
 //
 // The returned slice are connection ids that were closed.
 func (s *sess) CancelOpenLocalConnections() []string {
+	s.lock.RLock()
+	defer s.lock.RUnlock()
 	var closedIds []string
 	for k, v := range s.connInfoMap {
 		if v.Status != pbs.CONNECTIONSTATUS_CONNECTIONSTATUS_CLOSED {
@@ -336,6 +338,8 @@ func (s *sess) CancelOpenLocalConnections() []string {
 //
 // The returned slice is the connection ids which were closed.
 func (s *sess) CancelAllLocalConnections() []string {
+	s.lock.RLock()
+	defer s.lock.RUnlock()
 	var closedIds []string
 	for k, v := range s.connInfoMap {
 		v.connCtxCancelFunc()