Spring Boot 2.5.12 : Causes error - Could not initialize Logback logging from classpath:logback-spring.xml

I have recently upgraded the springboot 2.5.12. Now getting the error is like this

Logging system failed to initialize using configuration from 'null' java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not initialize Logback logging from classpath:logback-spring.xml at org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.loadConfiguration(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:168)

Caused by: ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.JoranException: Parser configuration error occurred at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.event.SaxEventRecorder.buildSaxParser(SaxEventRecorder.java:89) Caused by: ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.JoranException: Parser configuration error occurred

at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.event.SaxEventRecorder.recordEvents(SaxEventRecorder.java:57) at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:151) at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:110) at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:53) at org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.configureByResourceUrl(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:188) at org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.loadConfiguration(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:165) ... 38 more Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXNotRecognizedException: unrecognized feature http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities at org.gjt.xpp.sax2.Driver.setFeature(Driver.java:178) Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXNotRecognizedException: unrecognized feature http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities

at org.gjt.xpp.jaxp11.SAXParserImpl.setFeatures(SAXParserImpl.java:149)

Other dependencies are

org.slf4j:jcl-over-slf4j:1.7.30 ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:1.2.6

ch.qos.logback:logback-core:1.2.6

net.logstash.logback:logstash-logback-encoder:4.5.1

org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:2.16.0

Thanks for any help

logback-spring.xml

&grt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/base.xml"/>

<property scope="context" name="AppName" value="my-api" />
<property scope="context" name="Comp" value="task" />
<property scope="context" name="SchemaLocation" value="/pcfSchema.avsc" />
<property scope="context" name="index" value="task-apis" />

<contextName>my-api</contextName>

<appender name="ACTION_STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
    <encoder class="ch.qos.logback.core.encoder.LayoutWrappingEncoder">
        <layout class="com.ORG.util.PcfFormatter">
        </layout>
    </encoder>
</appender>

<springProfile name="local">
    <property scope="context" name="ENV" value="Dev" />
    <logger name="com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool" level="DEBUG" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="org.springframework" level="WARN" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="org.dozer" level="WARN" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
    </logger>
</springProfile>

<springProfile name="development">
    <property scope="context" name="ENV" value="Dev" />
    <logger name="org.springframework" level="WARN" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="org.dozer" level="WARN" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
    </logger>
</springProfile>

<springProfile name="production">
    <property scope="context" name="ENV" value="Prod" />
    <logger name="org.springframework" level="WARN" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="org.dozer" level="WARN" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
    </logger>
</springProfile>

<root level="WARN">
    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
</root> </configuration>