diff --git a/pkg/kv/kvclient/kvcoord/replayed_commit_test.go b/pkg/kv/kvclient/kvcoord/replayed_commit_test.go
index 4cac1f9a116e..2df8c43d55a2 100644
--- a/pkg/kv/kvclient/kvcoord/replayed_commit_test.go
+++ b/pkg/kv/kvclient/kvcoord/replayed_commit_test.go
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func (f *interceptingTransport) SendNext(
 // in which DistSender retries an (unbeknownst to it) successful EndTxn(commit=true)
 // RPC. It documents that this triggers an assertion failure in TxnCoordSender.
 //
-// See: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/67765
+// See: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/103817
 func TestCommitSanityCheckAssertionFiresOnUndetectedAmbiguousCommit(t *testing.T) {
 	defer leaktest.AfterTest(t)()
 	defer log.Scope(t).Close(t)
@@ -89,8 +89,6 @@ func TestCommitSanityCheckAssertionFiresOnUndetectedAmbiguousCommit(t *testing.T
 				},
 			}, nil
 		},
-		// Turn the assertion into an error returned via the txn.
-		DisableCommitSanityCheck: true,
 	}
 
 	tc := testcluster.StartTestCluster(t, 1, args)
diff --git a/pkg/kv/kvclient/kvcoord/testing_knobs.go b/pkg/kv/kvclient/kvcoord/testing_knobs.go
index 58bb2efafe1d..a48297fad032 100644
--- a/pkg/kv/kvclient/kvcoord/testing_knobs.go
+++ b/pkg/kv/kvclient/kvcoord/testing_knobs.go
@@ -48,10 +48,6 @@ type ClientTestingKnobs struct {
 	// only applies to requests sent with the LEASEHOLDER routing policy.
 	DontReorderReplicas bool
 
-	// DisableCommitSanityCheck allows "setting" the DisableCommitSanityCheck to
-	// true without actually overriding the variable.
-	DisableCommitSanityCheck bool
-
 	// CommitWaitFilter allows tests to instrument the beginning of a transaction
 	// commit wait sleep.
 	CommitWaitFilter func()
diff --git a/pkg/kv/kvclient/kvcoord/txn_coord_sender.go b/pkg/kv/kvclient/kvcoord/txn_coord_sender.go
index 0e83ae90387a..6607c40799cf 100644
--- a/pkg/kv/kvclient/kvcoord/txn_coord_sender.go
+++ b/pkg/kv/kvclient/kvcoord/txn_coord_sender.go
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/kv/kvserver/concurrency/isolation"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/roachpb"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/storage/enginepb"
-	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/envutil"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/hlc"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/log"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/syncutil"
@@ -35,12 +34,6 @@ const (
 	OpTxnCoordSender = "txn coordinator send"
 )
 
-// DisableCommitSanityCheck allows opting out of a fatal assertion error that was observed in the wild
-// and for which a root cause is not yet available.
-//
-// See: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/73512.
-var DisableCommitSanityCheck = envutil.EnvOrDefaultBool("COCKROACH_DISABLE_COMMIT_SANITY_CHECK", false)
-
 // txnState represents states relating to whether an EndTxn request needs
 // to be sent.
 //
@@ -969,13 +962,14 @@ func (tc *TxnCoordSender) updateStateLocked(
 // encounter such errors. Marking a transaction as explicitly-committed can also
 // encounter these errors, but those errors don't make it to the TxnCoordSender.
 //
-// Returns the passed-in error or fatals (depending on DisableCommitSanityCheck
-// env var), wrapping the input error in case of an assertion violation.
+// Wraps the error in case of an assertion violation, otherwise returns as-is.
 //
-// The assertion is known to have failed in the wild, see:
-// https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/67765
+// This checks for the occurence of a known issue involving ambiguous write
+// errors that occur alongside commits, which may race with transaction
+// recovery requests started by contending operations.
+// https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/103817
 func sanityCheckErrWithTxn(
-	ctx context.Context, pErrWithTxn *kvpb.Error, ba *kvpb.BatchRequest, knobs *ClientTestingKnobs,
+	ctx context.Context, pErrWithTxn *kvpb.Error, ba *kvpb.BatchRequest, _ *ClientTestingKnobs,
 ) error {
 	txn := pErrWithTxn.GetTxn()
 	if txn.Status != roachpb.COMMITTED {
@@ -988,24 +982,20 @@ func sanityCheckErrWithTxn(
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	// Finding out about our transaction being committed indicates a serious bug.
-	// Requests are not supposed to be sent on transactions after they are
-	// committed.
+	// Finding out about our transaction being committed indicates a serious but
+	// known bug. Requests are not supposed to be sent on transactions after they
+	// are committed.
 	err := errors.Wrapf(pErrWithTxn.GoError(),
 		"transaction unexpectedly committed, ba: %s. txn: %s",
 		ba, pErrWithTxn.GetTxn(),
 	)
 	err = errors.WithAssertionFailure(
 		errors.WithIssueLink(err, errors.IssueLink{
-			IssueURL: "https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/67765",
+			IssueURL: "https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/103817",
 			Detail: "you have encountered a known bug in CockroachDB, please consider " +
-				"reporting on the Github issue or reach out via Support. " +
-				"This assertion can be disabled by setting the environment variable " +
-				"COCKROACH_DISABLE_COMMIT_SANITY_CHECK=true",
+				"reporting on the Github issue or reach out via Support.",
 		}))
-	if !DisableCommitSanityCheck && !knobs.DisableCommitSanityCheck {
-		log.Fatalf(ctx, "%s", err)
-	}
+	log.Warningf(ctx, "%v", err)
 	return err
 }