It seems I can reproduce the issue also on an XWiki 15.10.8 instance on a local Debian 12 VM machine (downloaded the Jetty/HSQL with flavor from https://nexus.xwiki.org/nexus/content/groups/public/org/xwiki/platform/xwiki-platform-distribution-flavor-jetty-hsqldb/15.10.8/xwiki-platform-distribution-flavor-jetty-hsqldb-15.10.8.zip, unzipped it, deleted the data folder and started it.

On Step 2 of the Distribution Wizard, the issue reproduces. The Debian 12 local VM is using Java 17 from OpenJDK:

ilie@debian:~$ java -version
openjdk version "17.0.10" 2024-01-16
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 17.0.10+7-Debian-1deb12u1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0.10+7-Debian-1deb12u1, mixed mode, sharing)