CyclonedxBom task fails due to noSuchMethod error in fasterxml.jackson.dataformat

I am using the cyclonedx-gradle-plugin version 1.4.0 for Kotlin on Ubuntu 18.0. I get the following output when I run the
cycloneDx task -

> Task :cyclonedxBom FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':cyclonedxBom'.
> com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.cfg.MutableCoercionConfig com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper.coercionConfigDefaults()`

`
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.cfg.MutableCoercionConfig com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper.coercionConfigDefaults()'
at com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper.(XmlMapper.java:176)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper.(XmlMapper.java:145)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper.(XmlMapper.java:127)
at org.cyclonedx.generators.xml.AbstractBomXmlGenerator.(AbstractBomXmlGenerator.java:48)
at org.cyclonedx.generators.xml.BomXmlGenerator13.(BomXmlGenerator13.java:42)
at org.cyclonedx.BomGeneratorFactory.createXml(BomGeneratorFactory.java:46)
at org.cyclonedx.gradle.CycloneDxTask.writeXMLBom(CycloneDxTask.java:384)
at org.cyclonedx.gradle.CycloneDxTask.writeBom(CycloneDxTask.java:373)
at org.cyclonedx.gradle.CycloneDxTask.createBom(CycloneDxTask.java:176)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod.invoke(JavaMethod.java:104)
`

Start with the cyclonedxBom task failure and inspect the dependency versions resolved for com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml and com.fasterxml.jackson.databind. Trace the stack from org.cyclonedx.gradle.CycloneDxTask.writeXMLBom through XmlMapper, then reproduce on the reported plugin version and verify that the task completes without the NoSuchMethodError.

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