diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/81104-inventory-script-plugin-raise-execution-error.yml b/changelogs/fragments/81104-inventory-script-plugin-raise-execution-error.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..924d314fae8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/81104-inventory-script-plugin-raise-execution-error.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Inventory scripts parser not treat exception when getting hostsvar (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81103)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py
index 0d03476f544..3cdd99b6e59 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py
@@ -187,7 +187,11 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
             sp = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
         except OSError as e:
             raise AnsibleError("problem running %s (%s)" % (' '.join(cmd), e))
-        (out, err) = sp.communicate()
+        (out, stderr) = sp.communicate()
+
+        if sp.returncode != 0:
+            raise AnsibleError("Inventory script (%s) had an execution error: %s" % (path, to_native(stderr)))
+
         if out.strip() == '':
             return {}
         try:
diff --git a/test/units/plugins/inventory/test_script.py b/test/units/plugins/inventory/test_script.py
index f4a172a4ddb..89eb4f5b5d0 100644
--- a/test/units/plugins/inventory/test_script.py
+++ b/test/units/plugins/inventory/test_script.py
@@ -103,3 +103,11 @@ class TestInventoryModule(unittest.TestCase):
             self.inventory_module.parse(self.inventory, self.loader, '/foo/bar/foobar.py')
         assert e.value.message == to_native("failed to parse executable inventory script results from "
                                             "/foo/bar/foobar.py: needs to be a json dict\ndummyédata\n")
+
+    def test_get_host_variables_subprocess_script_raises_error(self):
+        self.popen_result.returncode = 1
+        self.popen_result.stderr = to_bytes("dummyéerror")
+
+        with pytest.raises(AnsibleError) as e:
+            self.inventory_module.get_host_variables('/foo/bar/foobar.py', 'dummy host')
+        assert e.value.message == "Inventory script (/foo/bar/foobar.py) had an execution error: dummyéerror"