JBoss EAP server throws an exception when starting up "java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in opaque part at index 7:"

Issue

After applying patch 7.2 CP1 to JBoss EAP 7.2.0 the following exception is thrown during server start up:

2019-05-13 11:45:11,419 WARN  [org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 78) AMQ222277: Problem initializing automatic logging configuration reload for file:C:\Java\jboss\jboss-as\standalone\configuration/logging.properties: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in opaque part at index 7: file:C:\Java\jboss\jboss-as\standalone\configuration/logging.properties
    at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2848)
    at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:3021)
    at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3058)
    at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:588)
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.impl.ActiveMQServerImpl.initialisePart1(ActiveMQServerImpl.java:2369)
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.impl.LiveOnlyActivation.run(LiveOnlyActivation.java:64)
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.impl.ActiveMQServerImpl.internalStart(ActiveMQServerImpl.java:544)
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.impl.ActiveMQServerImpl.start(ActiveMQServerImpl.java:481)
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.jms.server.impl.JMSServerManagerImpl.start(JMSServerManagerImpl.java:376)
    at org.wildfly.extension.messaging.activemq.jms.JMSService.doStart(JMSService.java:206)
    at org.wildfly.extension.messaging.activemq.jms.JMSService.access$000(JMSService.java:65)
    at org.wildfly.extension.messaging.activemq.jms.JMSService$1.run(JMSService.java:100)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at org.jboss.threads.ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.run(ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.java:35)
    at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor.safeRun(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1985)
    at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.doRunTask(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1487)
    at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1349)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
    at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:485)