maven-surefire-plugin version 2.20.1 giving NullPointerException

My Appium-Java-Maven tests is giving the following error while running on Circle CI, runs fine locally [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.20.1:test (default-test) on project MumboiOSTests: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.20.1:test failed.: NullPointerException

versions used:

maven: 3.5.3
maven-surefire-plugin:2.20.1
JUnit 4.11

Please find the log below https://gist.github.com/aleenadavy90/bdc06f953397cd5240bf41eee1dee212

[Tibor17]

Try to use Surefire 2.21.0.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:39 PM, Aleena Davy [e-mail] wrote:

Closed #1513 https://github.com/junit-team/junit4/issues/1513.

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[Tibor17]

@aleenadavy90 @laki88 Check it out with Surefire 2.22.0. It already uses ASM 6.1.1 through plexus-java:0.9.8. We had some problems with old ASM while developed JUnit5 and tested on JDK 10. Updated therefore.