diff --git a/changelog/62882.fixed b/changelog/62882.fixed
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..015b55fdfafc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/62882.fixed
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed dockermod version_info function for docker-py 6.0.0+
diff --git a/salt/modules/dockermod.py b/salt/modules/dockermod.py
index d8581586ca72..6870c26b0e61 100644
--- a/salt/modules/dockermod.py
+++ b/salt/modules/dockermod.py
@@ -344,7 +344,12 @@ def _get_docker_py_versioninfo():
     try:
         return docker.version_info
     except AttributeError:
-        pass
+        # docker 6.0.0+ exposes version from __version__ attribute
+        try:
+            docker_version = docker.__version__.split(".")
+            return tuple(int(n) for n in docker_version)
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass
 
 
 def _get_client(timeout=NOTSET, **kwargs):