REST request with XStream payload for Spring Boot kie-server application fails with exception " java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError"

Issue

REST request with XStream payload for Spring Boot kie-server application fails with the following exception :

2022-03-10 08:00:01.019,[WARN],host01,[http-nio-0.0.0.0-8090-exec-5],Application {http://resource.common.rest.remote.server.kie.org/}KieServerRestImpl has thrown exception, unwinding now
org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: Lorg/apache/avalon/framework/logger/Logger;
        at org.apache.cxf.service.invoker.AbstractInvoker.createFault(AbstractInvoker.java:162)
        at org.apache.cxf.service.invoker.AbstractInvoker.invoke(AbstractInvoker.java:128)
        at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.JAXRSInvoker.invoke(JAXRSInvoker.java:193)
        at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.JAXRSInvoker.invoke(JAXRSInvoker.java:103)
        at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.ServiceInvokerInterceptor$1.run(ServiceInvokerInterceptor.java:59)
        at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.ServiceInvokerInterceptor.handleMessage(ServiceInvokerInterceptor.java:96)
        at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:308)
        at org.apache.cxf.transport.ChainInitiationObserver.onMessage(ChainInitiationObserver.java:121)
        at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.AbstractHTTPDestination.invoke(AbstractHTTPDestination.java:267)
        at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.ServletController.invokeDestination(ServletController.java:234)
        at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.ServletController.invoke(ServletController.java:208)
        at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.ServletController.invoke(ServletController.java:160)
        at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFNonSpringServlet.invoke(CXFNonSpringServlet.java:216)
        at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.AbstractHTTPServlet.handleRequest(AbstractHTTPServlet.java:301)
        at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.AbstractHTTPServlet.doPost(AbstractHTTPServlet.java:220)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:652)
 ...
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Lorg/apache/avalon/framework/logger/Logger;
        at java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method)
        at java.base/java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Class.java:3061)
        at java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields(Class.java:2248)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.AnnotationMapper.processTypes(AnnotationMapper.java:205)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.AnnotationMapper.processAnnotations(AnnotationMapper.java:165)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.processAnnotations(XStream.java:2218)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.processAnnotations(XStream.java:2229)
        at org.kie.server.api.marshalling.xstream.XStreamMarshaller.configureMarshaller(XStreamMarshaller.java:239)
        at org.kie.server.api.marshalling.xstream.XStreamMarshaller.<init>(XStreamMarshaller.java:115)
        at org.kie.server.api.marshalling.BaseMarshallerBuilder.build(BaseMarshallerBuilder.java:39)
        at org.kie.server.api.marshalling.MarshallerFactory.getMarshaller(MarshallerFactory.java:50)
        at org.kie.server.services.impl.KieContainerInstanceImpl.getMarshaller(KieContainerInstanceImpl.java:184)
        at org.kie.server.services.impl.marshal.MarshallerHelper.unmarshal(MarshallerHelper.java:103)
        at org.kie.server.services.impl.marshal.MarshallerHelper.unmarshal(MarshallerHelper.java:88)
        at org.kie.server.services.jbpm.ProcessServiceBase.startProcess(ProcessServiceBase.java:110)
        at org.kie.server.remote.rest.jbpm.ProcessResource.startProcess(ProcessResource.java:181)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
        at org.apache.cxf.service.invoker.AbstractInvoker.performInvocation(AbstractInvoker.java:179)
        at org.apache.cxf.service.invoker.AbstractInvoker.invoke(AbstractInvoker.java:96)
        ... 90 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.Logger
        at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:476)
        at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:589)
        at org.springframework.boot.loader.LaunchedURLClassLoader.loadClass(LaunchedURLClassLoader.java:151)
        at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
    ... 112 common frames omitted

The class causing the java.lang.ClassNotFoundException is one of the following three classes, which are changed randomly at each application launch.
- org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.Logger
- org.apache.log.Logger
- org.apache.log4j.Priority

This issue happens on some environment but not on the other environments.
How to solve this?