3523839 - LDAP Authentication Failure Due to Invalid Certificate in SAP Cloud Connector

During LDAP based authentication for the SAP Cloud Connector, the server logs indicate a failure with a "CERTIFICATE_UNKNOWN" message. 

2024-2024-09-25 09:04:26,000 +0200#INFO#com.sap.scc.tomcat.utils.SystemPrintStreamSSLWrapper#https-jsse-nio2-8443-exec-6#          #javax.net.ssl|FINE|16|https-jsse-nio2-8443-exec-6|2024-09-25 09:04:26.000 CEST|CertificateMessage.java:364|Consuming server Certificate handshake message (
        
        2024-09-25 09:04:26,009 +0200#INFO#com.sap.scc.tomcat.utils.SystemPrintStreamSSLWrapper#https-jsse-nio2-8443-exec-6#          #javax.net.ssl|SEVERE|16|https-jsse-nio2-8443-exec-6|2024-09-25 09:04:26.009 CEST|TransportContext.java:362|Fatal (CERTIFICATE_UNKNOWN): sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target (
        "throwable" : {
          sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

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