diff --git a/scripts/run-playbooks.sh b/scripts/run-playbooks.sh
index b9b85061e0..445586746a 100755
--- a/scripts/run-playbooks.sh
+++ b/scripts/run-playbooks.sh
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ function get_includes {
   /opt/ansible-runtime/bin/python <<EOC
 import yaml
 with open("${1}") as f:
-    yaml_list = yaml.load(f.read())
+    yaml_list = yaml.safe_load(f.read())
 for item in yaml_list:
     _item = '---\n' + yaml.safe_dump([item], default_flow_style=False, width=1000)
     print(repr(_item).strip("'").strip('"'))
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ function get_include_file {
   /opt/ansible-runtime/bin/python <<EOC
 import yaml
 with open("${1}") as f:
-    yaml_list = yaml.load(f.read())
+    yaml_list = yaml.safe_load(f.read())
 print(yaml_list[0]['include'])
 EOC
 }
diff --git a/tests/test_inventory.py b/tests/test_inventory.py
index bc1efcc85f..e7e7554c18 100644
--- a/tests/test_inventory.py
+++ b/tests/test_inventory.py
@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ class TestInventoryGroupConstraints(unittest.TestCase):
                 - compute_hosts
         """
 
-        bad_env = yaml.load(override)
+        bad_env = yaml.safe_load(override)
 
         # This is essentially what load_environment does, after all the file
         # system walking