diff --git a/sentry_sdk/integrations/flask.py b/sentry_sdk/integrations/flask.py
index 4d85d83189..975b776f3e 100644
--- a/sentry_sdk/integrations/flask.py
+++ b/sentry_sdk/integrations/flask.py
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ def _request_started(app, **kwargs):
 
 
 def _request_finished(sender, response, **kwargs):
-    # Manually close the transaction because Bottle does not call `close()` on the WSGI response
+    # Manually close the transaction because Flask does not call `close()` on the WSGI response
     finish_running_transaction()
 
 
diff --git a/sentry_sdk/tracing_utils.py b/sentry_sdk/tracing_utils.py
index 8ea540a8a7..cd4e71528c 100644
--- a/sentry_sdk/tracing_utils.py
+++ b/sentry_sdk/tracing_utils.py
@@ -729,5 +729,7 @@ def get_current_span(scope=None):
 def finish_running_transaction():
     # type: () -> None
     current_scope = sentry_sdk.get_current_scope()
-    if current_scope._transaction is not None and hasattr(current_scope._transaction, "_context_manager_state"):
-        current_scope._transaction.__exit__(None, None, None)
+    if current_scope.transaction is not None and hasattr(
+        current_scope.transaction, "_context_manager_state"
+    ):
+        current_scope.transaction.__exit__(None, None, None)