2695662 - SAP Cloud Connector - UI cannot be accesed: "Keystore was tampered with, or password was incorrect"

After an upgrade, the SAP Cloud Connector administration UI cannot be accessed, even if previously it was reachable.

The Cloud Connector log file (<scc20>/logs/ljs_trace.log) records this entry with severity level Error:

[...]
#ERROR#org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol
#Start Level Event Dispatcher
#Failed to initialize end point associated with ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8443"]
java.io.IOException: Keystore was tampered with, or password was incorrect
 at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:780)
[...]
Caused by: java.security.UnrecoverableKeyException: Password verification failed
 at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:778)
[...]

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SAP Cloud Connector

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