mvn eclipse:eclipse fails with NullPointerException on Java 7 if pom.xml contains version range

If pom.xml contains version range (e. g. like this one:

<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
<artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
<version>[1.1,1.2)</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

) and JDK 1.7.0_02 is used, mvn eclipse:eclipse fails with NullPointerException:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin:2.8:eclipse (default-cli) on project webdav-jaxrs: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin:2.8:eclipse failed. NullPointerException -> [Help 1]

The bug location seems to be around this place:

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning.ComparableVersion.parseVersion(ComparableVersion.java:353)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning.ComparableVersion.<init>(ComparableVersion.java:344)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning.DefaultArtifactVersion.parseVersion(DefaultArtifactVersion.java:111)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning.DefaultArtifactVersion.<init>(DefaultArtifactVersion.java:47)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.DefaultArtifact.compareTo(DefaultArtifact.java:433)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.DefaultArtifact.compareTo(DefaultArtifact.java:43)
at java.util.TreeMap.compare(TreeMap.java:1188)
at java.util.TreeMap.put(TreeMap.java:531)
at java.util.TreeSet.add(TreeSet.java:255)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.ide.AbstractIdeSupportMojo.getProjectArtifacts(AbstractIdeSupportMojo.java:786)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.ide.AbstractIdeSupportMojo.doDependencyResolution(AbstractIdeSupportMojo.java:560)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.ide.AbstractIdeSupportMojo.execute(AbstractIdeSupportMojo.java:507)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101)
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