Yum install on a content host registered to Satellite 6.x fails with errors during downloading metadata for EPEL repository

Issue

• Yum install on a content host fails with the following error:

  # yum install <package>
  Updating Subscription Management repositories.
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)                                                87 kB/s | 2.6 kB     00:00
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs)                                             96 kB/s | 2.9 kB     00:00
  EPEL 9                                                                                               80 MB/s |  22 MB     00:00
  Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'Example_Org_EPEL_9_EPEL_9':
  - Status code: 500 for https://satellite.example.com/pulp/content/Example_Org/RH9_Non-Prod/RHEL_9/custom/EPEL_9/EPEL_9/repodata/ff6c1dbf6fbdf08eb2a880fc01b1b6d2e53b5cc6a05ab990c7b8186b365ff7dd-updateinfo.xml.gz (IP: 10.18.140.16)
  Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'Example_Org_EPEL_9_EPEL_9': Yum repo downloading error: Downloading error(s): repodata/ff6c1dbf6fbdf08eb2a880fc01b1b6d2e53b5cc6a05ab990c7b8186b365ff7dd-updateinfo.xml.gz - Cannot download, all mirrors were already tried without success