NPE in AbstractBadFieldNameChecker.visitNode while executing sonar-maven-plugin:3.6.0.1398:sonar

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Versions used:
SonarQube: 7.5.0.20543
SonarJava: 5.10.1 (build 16922)
sonar-maven-plugin: 3.6.0.1398

Error observed:

[ERROR] Unable to run check class org.sonar.java.checks.naming.BadFieldNameStaticNonFinalCheck - S3008 on file D:\jenkins\workspace\WM_6_Trunk_Windows_-_Static_Code_Analysis_(SonarUpgrade)\wm6-trainingwhp-project\wm6-trainingwhp-builder\src\main\java\com\swisslog\wm6\trainingwhp\impl\launchers\ExerciseBuilder.java, To help improve SonarJava, please report this problem to SonarSource : see https://www.sonarqube.org/community/
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
	at org.sonar.java.checks.AbstractBadFieldNameChecker.visitNode(AbstractBadFieldNameChecker.java:62)
	at org.sonar.java.ast.visitors.SubscriptionVisitor.visit(SubscriptionVisitor.java:95)
	at org.sonar.java.ast.visitors.SubscriptionVisitor.visitChildren(SubscriptionVisitor.java:120)
	at org.sonar.java.ast.visitors.SubscriptionVisitor.visit(SubscriptionVisitor.java:97)
	at org.sonar.java.ast.visitors.SubscriptionVisitor.scanTree(SubscriptionVisitor.java:78)
	at org.sonar.java.ast.visitors.SubscriptionVisitor.scanFile(SubscriptionVisitor.java:64)
	at org.sonar.java.model.VisitorsBridge.runScanner(VisitorsBridge.java:135)
	at org.sonar.java.model.VisitorsBridge.lambda$visitFile$0(VisitorsBridge.java:127)
	at com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList.forEach(ImmutableList.java:407)

Reported Java Class:
attached ExerciseBuilder.java
ExerciseBuilder.java.txt (12.0 KB)

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I can’t manage to reproduce this issue with the code provided in reproducer.

Given the line where the NPE is raised, could you check the configuration of the rule in the SonarQube UI ? I suspect a bad regex configuration leading to this issue.