diff --git a/awx/main/access.py b/awx/main/access.py
index 81b284afa8..f1985cf7e8 100644
--- a/awx/main/access.py
+++ b/awx/main/access.py
@@ -1471,6 +1471,8 @@ class CustomInventoryScriptAccess(BaseAccess):
     def can_read(self, obj):
         if self.user.is_superuser:
             return True
+        if not self.active:
+            return Flase
         return bool(obj.organization in self.user.organizations.all() or obj.organization in self.user.admin_of_organizations.all())
 
     def can_add(self, data):
diff --git a/awx/main/tasks.py b/awx/main/tasks.py
index 43da92bc25..9e07d94ba8 100644
--- a/awx/main/tasks.py
+++ b/awx/main/tasks.py
@@ -1134,7 +1134,8 @@ class RunInventoryUpdate(BaseTask):
             runpath = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='ansible_tower_launch_')
             handle, path = tempfile.mkstemp(dir=runpath)
             f = os.fdopen(handle, 'w')
-            # Check that source_script is not none and exists and that .script is not an empty string
+            if inventory_update.source_script is None or not inventory_update.source_script.active:
+                raise RuntimeError('Inventory Script does not exist')
             f.write(inventory_update.source_script.script.encode('utf-8'))
             f.close()
             os.chmod(path, stat.S_IRUSR|stat.S_IWUSR|stat.S_IXUSR)