diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/71979_ca_path_for_uri.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/71979_ca_path_for_uri.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fd8da76ac9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/71979_ca_path_for_uri.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - uri - add ``ca_path`` argument to allow specification of a CA certificate (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71979).
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
index b4cdd47342c..632387f6728 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
@@ -923,9 +923,7 @@ class SSLValidationHandler(urllib_request.BaseHandler):
                             to_native(f.read(), errors='surrogate_or_strict')
                         )
                     )
-                else:
-                    ca_certs.append(f.read())
-            return ca_certs, cadata, paths_checked
+            return self.ca_path, cadata, paths_checked
 
         if not HAS_SSLCONTEXT:
             paths_checked.append('/etc/ssl/certs')
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py b/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py
index 0e8ad802b22..c21c45f213c 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py
@@ -141,6 +141,11 @@ options:
       - If I(client_cert) contains both the certificate and key, this option is not required.
     type: path
     version_added: '2.4'
+  ca_path:
+    description:
+      - PEM formatted file that contains a CA certificate to be used for validation
+    type: path
+    version_added: '2.11'
   src:
     description:
       - Path to file to be submitted to the remote server.
@@ -548,13 +553,12 @@ def form_urlencoded(body):
     return body
 
 
-def uri(module, url, dest, body, body_format, method, headers, socket_timeout):
+def uri(module, url, dest, body, body_format, method, headers, socket_timeout, ca_path):
     # is dest is set and is a directory, let's check if we get redirected and
     # set the filename from that url
     redirected = False
     redir_info = {}
     r = {}
-
     src = module.params['src']
     if src:
         try:
@@ -594,6 +598,7 @@ def uri(module, url, dest, body, body_format, method, headers, socket_timeout):
 
     resp, info = fetch_url(module, url, data=data, headers=headers,
                            method=method, timeout=socket_timeout, unix_socket=module.params['unix_socket'],
+                           ca_path=ca_path,
                            **kwargs)
 
     try:
@@ -636,6 +641,7 @@ def main():
         headers=dict(type='dict', default={}),
         unix_socket=dict(type='path'),
         remote_src=dict(type='bool', default=False),
+        ca_path=dict(type='path', default=None),
     )
 
     module = AnsibleModule(
@@ -658,7 +664,7 @@ def main():
     removes = module.params['removes']
     status_code = [int(x) for x in list(module.params['status_code'])]
     socket_timeout = module.params['timeout']
-
+    ca_path = module.params['ca_path']
     dict_headers = module.params['headers']
 
     if not re.match('^[A-Z]+$', method):
@@ -702,7 +708,7 @@ def main():
     # Make the request
     start = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
     resp, content, dest = uri(module, url, dest, body, body_format, method,
-                              dict_headers, socket_timeout)
+                              dict_headers, socket_timeout, ca_path)
     resp['elapsed'] = (datetime.datetime.utcnow() - start).seconds
     resp['status'] = int(resp['status'])
     resp['changed'] = False
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/main.yml
index 2297f6f189d..4cefc6b3095 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/main.yml
@@ -131,6 +131,48 @@
       - "stat_result.stat.exists == true"
       - "result.changed == true"
 
+- name: "get ca certificate {{ self_signed_host }}"
+  get_url:
+    url: "http://{{ httpbin_host }}/ca2cert.pem"
+    dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/ca2cert.pem"
+
+- name: test https fetch to a site with self signed certificate using ca_path
+  uri:
+    url: "https://{{ self_signed_host }}:444/"
+    dest: "{{ output_dir }}/self-signed_using_ca_path.html"
+    ca_path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/ca2cert.pem"
+    validate_certs: yes
+  register: result
+
+- stat:
+    path: "{{ output_dir }}/self-signed_using_ca_path.html"
+  register: stat_result
+
+- name: Assert that the file was downloaded
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - "stat_result.stat.exists == true"
+      - "result.changed == true"
+
+- name: test https fetch to a site with self signed certificate without using ca_path
+  uri:
+    url: "https://{{ self_signed_host }}:444/"
+    dest: "{{ output_dir }}/self-signed-without_using_ca_path.html"
+    validate_certs: yes
+  register: result
+  ignore_errors: true
+
+- stat:
+    path: "{{ output_dir }}/self-signed-without_using_ca_path.html"
+  register: stat_result
+
+- name: Assure that https access to a host with self-signed certificate without providing ca_path fails
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - "stat_result.stat.exists == false"
+      - result is failed
+      - "'certificate verify failed' in result.msg"
+
 - name: test redirect without follow_redirects
   uri:
     url: 'https://{{ httpbin_host }}/redirect/2'