Sorting issues after performing a quick search as anonymous does not work

When I search something with Quick Search and then try to sort issues via column header "Order by", it does not work and it throws large exception into catalina.out.

Here is the beginning of relevant part of the log file:

2014-01-22 14:52:59,804 http-bio-8080-exec-17 ERROR anonymous 892x3491x1 1ape6de 10.0.106.18,0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 /rest/issueNav/1/orderByOptions [common.error.jersey.Throwa
bleExceptionMapper] Uncaught exception thrown by REST service
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.issuenav.rest.orderby.OrderByOptionsResource.getSortableColumns(OrderByOptionsResource.java:160)