diff --git a/changelog/15123.txt b/changelog/15123.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..51223e400
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/15123.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+```release-note:improvement
+core: Fix some identity data races found by Go race detector (no known impact yet).
+```
diff --git a/vault/identity_store_entities.go b/vault/identity_store_entities.go
index 6d90dcbdb..cc85d0179 100644
--- a/vault/identity_store_entities.go
+++ b/vault/identity_store_entities.go
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ func (i *IdentityStore) mergeEntity(ctx context.Context, txn *memdb.Txn, toEntit
 			return errors.New("to_entity_id should not be present in from_entity_ids"), nil
 		}
 
-		fromEntity, err := i.MemDBEntityByID(fromEntityID, false)
+		fromEntity, err := i.MemDBEntityByID(fromEntityID, true)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
diff --git a/vault/identity_store_util.go b/vault/identity_store_util.go
index f026412fc..5f9e891e7 100644
--- a/vault/identity_store_util.go
+++ b/vault/identity_store_util.go
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ func (i *IdentityStore) processLocalAlias(ctx context.Context, lAlias *logical.A
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mount accessor %q is not local", lAlias.MountAccessor)
 	}
 
-	alias, err := i.MemDBAliasByFactors(lAlias.MountAccessor, lAlias.Name, false, false)
+	alias, err := i.MemDBAliasByFactors(lAlias.MountAccessor, lAlias.Name, true, false)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}