diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7379-url.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7379-url.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..818f14ed50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/7379-url.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "memset module utils - make compatible with ansible-core 2.17 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7379)."
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/memset.py b/plugins/module_utils/memset.py
index 374b40ff44..00c028fb09 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/memset.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/memset.py
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode
-from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url, urllib_error
+from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import json
+import ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.error as urllib_error
 
 
 class Response(object):