Spring Webflex - reactor core exception - accessing endpoint with http: basic auth

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I'm sure this shouldn't happen, but when I try to access an endpoint requiring basic http authentication, from postman, but in postman set authetication to none, instead of getting not authenticated / not authorized back, Spring Boot throws an exception and crashes,

2024-07-02T21:54:33.799+01:00 WARN 79450 --- [ parallel-1] reactor.core.Exceptions : throwIfFatal detected a jvm fatal exception, which is thrown and logged below:

java.lang.StackOverflowError: null
	at reactor.core.publisher.InnerOperator.currentContext(InnerOperator.java:33) ~[reactor-core-3.5.11.jar:3.5.11]
	at reactor.core.publisher.MonoFlatMap$FlatMapInner.currentContext(MonoFlatMap.java:270) ~[reactor-core-3.5.11.jar:3.5.11]
	at reactor.core.publisher.InnerOperator.currentContext(InnerOperator.java:33) ~[reactor-core-3.5.11.jar:3.5.11]
	at reactor.core.publisher.InnerOperator.currentContext(InnerOperator.java:33) ~[reactor-core-3.5.11.jar:3.5.11]
	at reactor.core.publisher.InnerOperator.currentContext(InnerOperator.java:33) ~[reactor-core-3.5.11.jar:3.5.11]
	at reactor.core.publisher.InnerOperator.currentContext(InnerOperator.java:33) ~[reactor-core-3.5.11.jar:3.5.11]
	at reactor.core.publisher.InnerOperator.currentContext(InnerOperator.java:33) ~[reactor-core-3.5.11.jar:3.5.11

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