diff --git a/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/error.py b/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/error.py
index e1f1d6b21e..755417bda4 100644
--- a/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/error.py
+++ b/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/error.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseNotFound, HttpResponseServerEr
 
 from edxmako.shortcuts import render_to_response, render_to_string
 from openedx.core.djangolib.js_utils import dump_js_escaped_json
+from util.views import fix_crum_request
 
 __all__ = ['not_found', 'server_error', 'render_404', 'render_500']
 
@@ -38,11 +39,13 @@ def server_error(request):
     return render_to_response('error.html', {'error': '500'})
 
 
+@fix_crum_request
 @jsonable_error(404, "Resource not found")
 def render_404(request):
     return HttpResponseNotFound(render_to_string('404.html', {}, request=request))
 
 
+@fix_crum_request
 @jsonable_error(500, "The Studio servers encountered an error")
 def render_500(request):
     return HttpResponseServerError(render_to_string('500.html', {}, request=request))
diff --git a/common/djangoapps/util/views.py b/common/djangoapps/util/views.py
index 48763c00d9..cdf5f860a3 100644
--- a/common/djangoapps/util/views.py
+++ b/common/djangoapps/util/views.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import logging
 import sys
 from functools import wraps
 from smtplib import SMTPException
+import crum
 
 import zendesk
 from django.conf import settings
@@ -87,6 +88,21 @@ def require_global_staff(func):
     return login_required(wrapped)
 
 
+def fix_crum_request(func):
+    """
+    A decorator that ensures that the 'crum' package (a middleware that stores and fetches the current request in
+    thread-local storage) can correctly fetch the current request. Under certain conditions, the current request cannot
+    be fetched by crum (e.g.: when HTTP errors are raised in our views via 'raise Http404', et. al.). This decorator
+    manually sets the current request for crum if it cannot be fetched.
+    """
+    @wraps(func)
+    def wrapper(request, *args, **kwargs):
+        if not crum.get_current_request():
+            crum.set_current_request(request=request)
+        return func(request, *args, **kwargs)
+    return wrapper
+
+
 @requires_csrf_token
 def jsonable_server_error(request, template_name='500.html'):
     """
diff --git a/lms/djangoapps/static_template_view/views.py b/lms/djangoapps/static_template_view/views.py
index 0082c21186..5c1e2200db 100644
--- a/lms/djangoapps/static_template_view/views.py
+++ b/lms/djangoapps/static_template_view/views.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from django.views.decorators.csrf import ensure_csrf_cookie
 
 from edxmako.shortcuts import render_to_response, render_to_string
 from util.cache import cache_if_anonymous
+from util.views import fix_crum_request
 
 valid_templates = []
 
@@ -74,9 +75,11 @@ def render_press_release(request, slug):
         return resp
 
 
+@fix_crum_request
 def render_404(request):
     return HttpResponseNotFound(render_to_string('static_templates/404.html', {}, request=request))
 
 
+@fix_crum_request
 def render_500(request):
     return HttpResponseServerError(render_to_string('static_templates/server-error.html', {}, request=request))