NullPointer & authentication cancelled occure immediately on SVN checkout

The NullPointerException below sometimes occures when Jenkins starts an SVN checkout (at the beginning of the job), only with secured HTTP (HTTPS).

Can you please catch this exception and log a message with the root cause ?

It is a blocker for us to use SVN over HTTPS.

We use last versions of every components:
Jenkins 1.608
Subversion Plug-in : 2.5

23:00:46 Started by upstream project "Build Pipeline Job" build number 193
23:00:46 originally caused by:
23:00:46 Started by timer
23:00:46 [EnvInject] - Loading node environment variables.
23:00:46 Building remotely on linux-slave1 in workspace /home/app_jenkins/slave1/workspace/XXX Nightly Trunk
23:00:47 Checking out a fresh workspace because there's no workspace at /home/app_jenkins/slave1/workspace/XXX Nightly Trunk
23:00:47 Cleaning local Directory .
23:00:47 Checking out https://svn.company.com/products/xxx/trunk at revision '2015-04-15T23:00:46.930 +0200'
23:00:47 ERROR: Failed to check out https://svn.company.com/products/xxx/trunk
23:00:47 org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNCancelException: svn: E200015: authentication cancelled
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.cancel(SVNErrorManager.java:37)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.cancel(SVNErrorManager.java:32)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.DefaultSVNAuthenticationManager.getNextAuthentication(DefaultSVNAuthenticationManager.java:215)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.http.HTTPConnection.request(HTTPConnection.java:685)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.http.HTTPConnection.request(HTTPConnection.java:371)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.http.HTTPConnection.request(HTTPConnection.java:359)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.DAVConnection.performHttpRequest(DAVConnection.java:710)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.DAVConnection.exchangeCapabilities(DAVConnection.java:627)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.DAVConnection.open(DAVConnection.java:102)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.DAVRepository.openConnection(DAVRepository.java:1032)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.DAVRepository.getLatestRevision(DAVRepository.java:175)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.ng.SvnNgRepositoryAccess.getRevisionNumber(SvnNgRepositoryAccess.java:118)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.SvnRepositoryAccess.getLocations(SvnRepositoryAccess.java:184)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.ng.SvnNgRepositoryAccess.createRepositoryFor(SvnNgRepositoryAccess.java:45)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.ng.SvnNgAbstractUpdate.checkout(SvnNgAbstractUpdate.java:756)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.ng.SvnNgCheckout.run(SvnNgCheckout.java:26)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.ng.SvnNgCheckout.run(SvnNgCheckout.java:11)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.ng.SvnNgOperationRunner.run(SvnNgOperationRunner.java:20)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.SvnOperationRunner.run(SvnOperationRunner.java:21)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc2.SvnOperationFactory.run(SvnOperationFactory.java:1259)
23:00:47 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc2.SvnOperation.run(SvnOperation.java:294)
23:00:47 at hudson.scm.subversion.CheckoutUpdater$1.perform(CheckoutUpdater.java:115)
23:00:47 at hudson.scm.subversion.WorkspaceUpdater$UpdateTask.delegateTo(WorkspaceUpdater.java:162)
23:00:47 at hudson.scm.subversion.WorkspaceUpdater$UpdateTask.delegateTo(WorkspaceUpdater.java:170)
23:00:47 at hudson.scm.subversion.UpdateUpdater$TaskImpl.perform(UpdateUpdater.java:133)
23:00:47 at hudson.scm.subversion.WorkspaceUpdater$UpdateTask.delegateTo(WorkspaceUpdater.java:162)
23:00:47 at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.perform(SubversionSCM.java:991)
23:00:47 at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:972)
23:00:47 at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:948)
23:00:47 at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:2688)
23:00:47 at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
23:00:47 at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
23:00:47 at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:328)
23:00:47 at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
23:00:47 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
23:00:47 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
23:00:47 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
23:00:47 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
23:00:47 FATAL: null
23:00:47 java.lang.NullPointerException
23:00:47 at java.util.ArrayList.addAll(ArrayList.java:559)
23:00:47 at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:897)
23:00:47 at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:833)
23:00:47 at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:484)
23:00:47 at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1270)
23:00:47 at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:609)
23:00:47 at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
23:00:47 at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:531)
23:00:47 at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1741)
23:00:47 at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:531)
23:00:47 at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
23:00:47 at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:374)