Leapp Pre-upgrade Check Fails with "Upgrade requires links in root directory to be relative"

Running a pre-upgrade check from Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 8 using leapp fails with the following error:

# leapp upgrade --oraclelinux

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  UPGRADE INHIBITED
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Upgrade has been inhibited due to the following problems:
  1. Inhibitor: Upgrade requires links in root directory to be relative
Consult the pre-upgrade report for details and possible remediation.

The leapp pre-upgrade logs, /var/log/leapp/leapp-preupgrade.log, shows the following messages:

Risk Factor: high (inhibitor)
Title: Upgrade requires links in root directory to be relative
Summary: After rebooting, parts of the upgrade process can fail if symbolic links in / point to absolute paths.
Please change these links to relative ones.
Remediation: [hint] 1 symbolic links point to absolute paths that have non-utf8 encoding and need to be fixed additionally