Android kotlin NoClassDefFoundError : JAXBException is firing while building the application?

Question

While importing already existing code from Bitbucket, I am getting a NoClassDefFoundError as shown:

    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.JAXBException
        at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:476)
        at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:589)
        at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
        ... 43 more
    
Can anyone please help me regarding the error?

Thank you!