2760877 - Cannot process an HTTP request to servlet [OData] in [idmrestapi] web application

The following error is raised when processing a request using the IDM REST component:

Cannot process an HTTP request to servlet [OData] in [idmrestapi] web application.
[EXCEPTION]
javax.servlet.ServletException: Failed to invoke XSRF servlet filter
    at com.sap.idm.odata.filter.XSRFFilter.doFilter(XSRFFilter.java:52)

This error message is followed by another error:

Failed to invoke XSRF servlet filter for SAP Identity Management RESTv2
[EXCEPTION]
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.sap.idm.jmx.ic.EntryUtil.searchEntries(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/HashMap;III[Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/util/Map;
    at com.sap.idm.odata.impl.Entries.getEntries(Entries.java:159)

The traces can be gathered by following KBA 2599909.

SAP Identity Management 8

ET_MX_PERSON , KBA , BC-IAM-IDM , Identity Management , Problem