Salesforce deployment using sf command in Github workflow fails with error message : The user aborted a request.

Summary
**IMP** This is an intermittent issue
I have a Github Workflow that deploys a branch in Github to Salesforce and during deployment it fails with error message "The user aborted a request."

### Steps To Reproduce
I am using below steps this workflow:

- name: Install Salesforce CLI
run: |
mkdir -p ~/sf
wget https://developer.salesforce.com/media/salesforce-cli/sf/channels/stable/sf-linux-x64.tar.xz
tar xJf sf-linux-x64.tar.xz -C ~/sf --strip-components 1
echo "$HOME/sf/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
~/sf/bin/sf --version

- name: Authenticate to Salesforce DevelopDev Sandbox
run: |
echo "${{ secrets.SERVER_KEY }}" > server.key
sf org login jwt \
--username ${{ secrets.DEPLOYMENT_USERNAME }} \
--jwt-key-file server.key \
--client-id ${{ secrets.CONSUMER_KEY }} \
--instance-url ${{ vars.INSTANCE_URL }} \
--set-default \
--alias DevSandbox

- name: Deploy and run Apex tests (verbose, wait up to 5 hours for job to finish)
run: |
sf project deploy start \
--source-dir force-app \
--target-org DevSandbox \
--test-level RunLocalTests \
--ignore-conflicts \
--ignore-warnings \
--wait 300 \
--verbose

### Expected result
The deployment should initiate by deploying develop branch to salesforce sandbox.

### Actual result
Authentication is successful but it takes 22 minutes to authenticate against a sandbox and then the deployment never gets initiated in Salesforce and the deployment fails with error message "The user aborted a request."
This issue is intermittent and does not happen all the times.