diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/backends.py b/django/contrib/auth/backends.py
index e72a18981c57..0793a238d702 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/backends.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/backends.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
 from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission
 from django.db.models import Exists, OuterRef, Q
+from django.views.decorators.debug import sensitive_variables
 
 UserModel = get_user_model()
 
@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@ class ModelBackend(BaseBackend):
     Authenticates against settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL.
     """
 
+    @sensitive_variables("password")
     def authenticate(self, request, username=None, password=None, **kwargs):
         if username is None:
             username = kwargs.get(UserModel.USERNAME_FIELD)
@@ -71,6 +73,7 @@ def authenticate(self, request, username=None, password=None, **kwargs):
             if user.check_password(password) and self.user_can_authenticate(user):
                 return user
 
+    @sensitive_variables("password")
     async def aauthenticate(self, request, username=None, password=None, **kwargs):
         if username is None:
             username = kwargs.get(UserModel.USERNAME_FIELD)
diff --git a/tests/auth_tests/models/custom_user.py b/tests/auth_tests/models/custom_user.py
index dac61f8e68fe..29dc42f645b4 100644
--- a/tests/auth_tests/models/custom_user.py
+++ b/tests/auth_tests/models/custom_user.py
@@ -143,3 +143,17 @@ class ExtensionUser(AbstractUser):
         custom_objects = UserManager()
 
         REQUIRED_FIELDS = AbstractUser.REQUIRED_FIELDS + ["date_of_birth"]
+
+
+class ErrorUserManager(BaseUserManager):
+    def get_by_natural_key(self, _):
+        raise TypeError
+
+    async def aget_by_natural_key(self, _):
+        raise TypeError
+
+
+with RemoveGroupsAndPermissions():
+
+    class ErrorAdminUser(AbstractUser):
+        custom_objects = ErrorUserManager()
diff --git a/tests/auth_tests/test_auth_backends.py b/tests/auth_tests/test_auth_backends.py
index 3ea6ff6a6955..77eeed3d60f0 100644
--- a/tests/auth_tests/test_auth_backends.py
+++ b/tests/auth_tests/test_auth_backends.py
@@ -1146,6 +1146,42 @@ async def test_aauthenticate_sensitive_variables(self):
             status_code=500,
         )
 
+    @override_settings(AUTH_USER_MODEL="auth_tests.ErrorAdminUser")
+    def test_model_backend_authenticate_sensitive_variables(self):
+        try:
+            authenticate(username="testusername", password=self.sensitive_password)
+        except TypeError:
+            exc_info = sys.exc_info()
+        rf = RequestFactory()
+        response = technical_500_response(rf.get("/"), *exc_info)
+        self.assertNotContains(response, self.sensitive_password, status_code=500)
+        self.assertContains(
+            response,
+            '<tr><td>password</td><td class="code">'
+            "<pre>&#39;********************&#39;</pre></td></tr>",
+            html=True,
+            status_code=500,
+        )
+
+    @override_settings(AUTH_USER_MODEL="auth_tests.ErrorAdminUser")
+    async def test_model_backend_async_authenticate_sensitive_variables(self):
+        try:
+            await aauthenticate(
+                username="testusername", password=self.sensitive_password
+            )
+        except TypeError:
+            exc_info = sys.exc_info()
+        rf = RequestFactory()
+        response = technical_500_response(rf.get("/"), *exc_info)
+        self.assertNotContains(response, self.sensitive_password, status_code=500)
+        self.assertContains(
+            response,
+            '<tr><td>password</td><td class="code">'
+            "<pre>&#39;********************&#39;</pre></td></tr>",
+            html=True,
+            status_code=500,
+        )
+
     def test_clean_credentials_sensitive_variables(self):
         try:
             # Passing in a list to cause an exception