URL in vulnerability reference contains illegal character

We encountered a case in which this URL was returned in a vulnerability reference:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:oracle:siebel_engineering_-_installer_\&_deployment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

ORT converts these references to the Java URI type, which fails in this case due to an invalid character.

Not sure what would be the best way to handle such issues. Should VulnerableCode perform some validation on URLs? Or should ORT better not rely on those strings to be valid URLs?