diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/551-publickey-info.yml b/changelogs/fragments/551-publickey-info.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f235002b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/551-publickey-info.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "openssl_publickey_info - do not crash with internal error when public key cannot be parsed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto/pull/551)."
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/crypto/module_backends/publickey_info.py b/plugins/module_utils/crypto/module_backends/publickey_info.py
index 2e071354..452b4c2d 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/crypto/module_backends/publickey_info.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/crypto/module_backends/publickey_info.py
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ class PublicKeyInfoRetrieval(object):
             try:
                 self.key = load_publickey(content=self.content, backend=self.backend)
             except OpenSSLObjectError as e:
-                raise PublicKeyParseError(to_native(e))
+                raise PublicKeyParseError(to_native(e), {})
 
         pk = self._get_public_key(binary=True)
         result['fingerprints'] = get_fingerprint_of_bytes(