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3694066 - Error "Failed to initialize the 'admin' user" during performing "ant updatesystem" while upgrading from lower patch to 2211.47

Symptom

During an upgrade to SAP Commerce Cloud 2211.47,  the system update (ant updatesystem) fails with the following error while initializing the admin user:

  [java] INFO  [main] [Initialization] ################ Failed to initialize the 'admin' user. Reason: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error decrypting property 'encodedPassword' of item <PK>
     [java] ERROR [main] [AbstractAntPerformable] Error occurred while performing ant task
     [java] de.hybris.platform.core.initialization.SystemSetupException: Failed to initialize the 'admin' user. Reason: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error decrypting property 'encodedPassword' of item <PK>
     [java]   at de.hybris.platform.core.DefaultUserInitializer.doInitializeUsers(DefaultUserInitializer.java:71) ~[coreserver.jar:?]
     [java]   ...
     [java]   at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568) ~[?:?]
     [java]   at de.hybris.bootstrap.loader.Loader.execute(Loader.java:144) [ybootstrap.jar:?]
     [java]   at de.hybris.bootstrap.loader.Loader.main(Loader.java:108) [ybootstrap.jar:?]
     [java] Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error decrypting property 'encodedPassword' of item <PK>
     [java]   ...
     [java] Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: error in decryption
     [java]   at de.hybris.platform.util.encryption.ValueEncryptionStrategy.decryptViaOldKey(ValueEncryptionStrategy.java:70) ~[coreserver.jar:?]
     [java]   at de.hybris.platform.core.DefaultUserInitializer.doInitializeUsers(DefaultUserInitializer.java:56) ~[coreserver.jar:?]
     [java]   ... 
     [java] Caused by: javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException: last block incomplete in decryption



And the "admin" user is already configured to use a secure password encoding algorithm (Argon2 or BCrypt), as confirmed by the following query:

select p_passwordencoding from users where p_uid='admin';


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Environment

SAP Commerce Cloud

Product

SAP Commerce Cloud all versions

Keywords

build error, de.hybris.platform.util.encryption.ValueEncryptor, symmetric.key.file.1, decryptDataWithStrategy, decryption error, encodedPassword, initialization failure, admin user , KBA , CEC-SCC-PLA-PL , Platform , Problem

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