diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9054bd22f4..ee6e4b3f95 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ What's New in Pylint 2.13.8?
 ============================
 Release date: TBA
 
+* Fix a crash when linting a file that passes an integer ``mode=`` to
+  ``open``
+
+  Closes #6414
 
 
 What's New in Pylint 2.13.7?
diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/2.13.rst b/doc/whatsnew/2.13.rst
index 00d134a8c7..bd002d0216 100644
--- a/doc/whatsnew/2.13.rst
+++ b/doc/whatsnew/2.13.rst
@@ -610,3 +610,8 @@ Other Changes
 * Only raise ``not-callable`` when all the inferred values of a property are not callable.
 
   Closes #5931
+
+* Fix a crash when linting a file that passes an integer ``mode=`` to
+  ``open``
+
+  Closes #6414
diff --git a/pylint/checkers/stdlib.py b/pylint/checkers/stdlib.py
index 6eeaa20a90..daf9324445 100644
--- a/pylint/checkers/stdlib.py
+++ b/pylint/checkers/stdlib.py
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ def _check_open_encoded(self, node: nodes.Call, open_module: str) -> None:
         if (
             not mode_arg
             or isinstance(mode_arg, nodes.Const)
-            and (not mode_arg.value or "b" not in mode_arg.value)
+            and (not mode_arg.value or "b" not in str(mode_arg.value))
         ):
             encoding_arg = None
             try:
diff --git a/tests/functional/u/unspecified_encoding_py38.py b/tests/functional/u/unspecified_encoding_py38.py
index 20233f0734..66b8523f4c 100644
--- a/tests/functional/u/unspecified_encoding_py38.py
+++ b/tests/functional/u/unspecified_encoding_py38.py
@@ -159,3 +159,6 @@ class IOArgs:
 
 # Test for crash reported in https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/5731
 open(FILENAME, mode=None)  # [bad-open-mode, unspecified-encoding]
+
+# Test for crash reported in https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6414
+open('foo', mode=2)  # [bad-open-mode, unspecified-encoding]
diff --git a/tests/functional/u/unspecified_encoding_py38.txt b/tests/functional/u/unspecified_encoding_py38.txt
index b3371299f5..8cf19dee45 100644
--- a/tests/functional/u/unspecified_encoding_py38.txt
+++ b/tests/functional/u/unspecified_encoding_py38.txt
@@ -29,3 +29,5 @@ unspecified-encoding:155:0:155:26::Using open without explicitly specifying an e
 unspecified-encoding:158:0:158:35::Using open without explicitly specifying an encoding:UNDEFINED
 bad-open-mode:161:0:161:25::"""None"" is not a valid mode for open.":UNDEFINED
 unspecified-encoding:161:0:161:25::Using open without explicitly specifying an encoding:UNDEFINED
+bad-open-mode:164:0:164:19::"""2"" is not a valid mode for open.":UNDEFINED
+unspecified-encoding:164:0:164:19::Using open without explicitly specifying an encoding:UNDEFINED