diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index abc1f6f480d..27dfe738323 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
   . Fixed bug #71596 (Segmentation fault on ZTS with date function
     (setlocale)). (Anatol)
   . Fixed bug #71535 (Integer overflow in zend_mm_alloc_heap()). (Dmitry)
+  . Fixed bug #71470 (Leaked 1 hashtable iterators). (Nikita)
 
 - ODBC:
   . Fixed bug #47803, #69526 (Executing prepared statements is succesfull only
diff --git a/Zend/tests/bug71470.phpt b/Zend/tests/bug71470.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6f8b4f01033
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Zend/tests/bug71470.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--TEST--
+Bug #71470: Leaked 1 hashtable iterators
+--FILE--
+<?php
+
+$array = [1, 2, 3];
+foreach ($array as &$v) {
+    die("foo\n");
+}
+
+?>
+--EXPECT--
+foo
diff --git a/Zend/zend_execute_API.c b/Zend/zend_execute_API.c
index 0c6f0377dab..56ad4366ff8 100644
--- a/Zend/zend_execute_API.c
+++ b/Zend/zend_execute_API.c
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ void shutdown_executor(void) /* {{{ */
 	zend_shutdown_fpu();
 
 #ifdef ZEND_DEBUG
-	if (EG(ht_iterators_used)) {
+	if (EG(ht_iterators_used) && !CG(unclean_shutdown)) {
 		zend_error(E_WARNING, "Leaked %" PRIu32 " hashtable iterators", EG(ht_iterators_used));
 	}
 #endif