Unable to navigate or to transition a request from the Portal using Edge browser

Problem definition

It's not possible for any transitions to be made from the Portal if one is using the Edge browser.

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Using Edge browser, access a Service Desk request that can be transitioned from the Portal view.
2. Perform the transition.

Expected result

The transition can be made successfully.

Actual result

An error pops up for any transitions that the customer attempting to make and the transition failed to be made successfully.

• Error below can be found in the atlassian-jira.log

  2018-08-14 18:34:09,258 http-nio-8080-exec-11 ERROR customer1 1114x254x1 mzbc81 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 /rest/servicedesk/1/customer/requests/transition [c.a.p.r.c.error.jersey.ThrowableExceptionMapper] Uncaught exception thrown by REST service: Can not deserialize instance of int out of START_OBJECT token
       at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@43d44b6c; line: 1, column: 23] (through reference chain: com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.rest.customers.transitions.CustomerTransitionRequest["transitionId"])
  org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException: Can not deserialize instance of int out of START_OBJECT token
   at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@43d44b6c; line: 1, column: 23] (through reference chain: com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.rest.customers.transitions.CustomerTransitionRequest["transitionId"])
  	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException.from(JsonMappingException.java:163)
  	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializationContext.mappingException(StdDeserializationContext.java:219)
  	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.StdDeserializer._parseInteger(StdDeserializer.java:329)
  	at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.StdDeserializer$IntegerDeserializer.deserialize(StdDeserializer.java:819)
  ...
  

Notes

The transition ID is empty in the Edge browser but for any other browsers, the transition ID is not empty.