apache - java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range Error -

i experiencing java.lang.stringindexoutofboundsexception: string index out of range error.

~/apache-maven-3.3.3/bin]$ mvn -version

/home//jdk1.7.0_75//bin/java -xdebug -classpath /home//apache-maven-3.3.3/boot/plexus-classworlds-2.5.2.jar -dclassworlds.conf=/home//apache-maven-3.3.3/bin/m2.conf -dmaven.home=/home//apache-maven-3.3.3 -dmaven.multimoduleprojectdirectory=/home//apache-maven-3.3.3/bin org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.launcher -version

java.lang.stringindexoutofboundsexception: string index out of range: -1 @ java.lang.string.substring(string.java:1911) @ org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.configurationparser.loadglob(configurationparser.java:343) @ org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.configurationparser.parse(configurationparser.java:246) @ org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.configurator.configure(configurator.java:133) @ org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.launcher.configure(launcher.java:131) @ org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.launcher.mainwithexitcode(launcher.java:409) @ org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.launcher.main(launcher.java:356)

my current setup:

maven 3.3.3

redhat 5.6

have tried installing:

jdk 1.7 , 1.8

i tried switching java version did not help.