Red Hat Certificate System TKS configuration may fail in panel "Requests and Certificates" with Java exception "java.lang.NullPointerException : null"

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Issue

A Red Hat Certificate System TKS configuration may fail in the web based configuration wizard, in panel "Requests and Certificates" with a Java exception like this:

Invocation of method 'getEscapedCertpp' in  class com.netscape.cms.servlet.csadmin.Cert threw exception class java.lang.NullPointerException : null
org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'getEscapedCertpp' in  class com.netscape.cms.servlet.csadmin.Cert threw exception class java.lang.NullPointerException : null
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:246)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:175)
...

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)
redhat-ds-base-8.2.11-5.el5dsrv
pki-ca-8.1.1-1.el5pki
pki-tks-8.1.1-1.el5pki

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