3322923 - Builds are failing with Error during JSON processing - Unexpected character

Builds are failing with the following and or similar error message:

INFO d.h.c.Builder [main] Started task: readCoreCommerceManifest
Exception in thread "main" de.hybris.ccv2.json.JsonProcessingException: Error during JSON processing
    at de.hybris.ccv2.json.JsonSchemaValidator.getValidationReport(JsonSchemaValidator.java:44)
    ...
Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): was expecting double-quote to start field name
 at [Source: (StringReader); line: 1, column: 529]
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser._constructError(JsonParser.java:2418)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.base.ParserMinimalBase._reportError(ParserMinimalBase.java:749)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.base.ParserMinimalBase._reportUnexpectedChar(ParserMinimalBase.java:673)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.ReaderBasedJsonParser._handleOddName(ReaderBasedJsonParser.java:1937)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.ReaderBasedJsonParser.nextFieldName(ReaderBasedJsonParser.java:965)
    ...

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