diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/56800-fix-yum-list-repoquery.yml b/changelogs/fragments/56800-fix-yum-list-repoquery.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1c21db9f65a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/56800-fix-yum-list-repoquery.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - yum - fix yum list crashing if repoquery (used internally) prints errors in stdout (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56800)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/os/yum.py b/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/os/yum.py
index 69cc9aa2d94..3ecacef66ac 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/os/yum.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/os/yum.py
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ class YumModule(YumDnf):
                 os.environ["https_proxy"] = old_proxy_env[1]
 
     def pkg_to_dict(self, pkgstr):
-        if pkgstr.strip():
+        if pkgstr.strip() and pkgstr.count('|') == 5:
             n, e, v, r, a, repo = pkgstr.split('|')
         else:
             return {'error_parsing': pkgstr}