Registry : Could not evaluate: incomplete "\x00" on UTF-16LE

Module Version: "2.0.1"
Puppet Version: 6.0.4
OS Name/Version: Windows server 2012 R2 Datacenter

We are trying to manage some registry entries with similar code below, initially the entry exists on the system registry but then all puppet agent runs with errors as shown in the bottom of the description.

registry_value { 'HKLM\\Software\\Wow6432Node\\Interwoven\\Worksite\\imEmailSvcBad Directory':

 ensure => present,

 type => string,

 data => "${badmail}",

 }

If we delete the value and run puppet agent again it creates the value and the error seem to be gone.

Why is puppet incompatible and errors are appearing although it seems to manage registry key/value correctly?

This problem is exhibiting on several production systems quite randomly and we want to find a way to clear them. 

ERROR:

2019-05-30 13:08:19 +0200 Puppet (debug): Checking the existence of registry value: Registry_value[32:HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Interwoven\Worksite\imEmailSvc\Bad Directory](provider=registry)

2019-05-30 13:08:19 +0200 /Stage[main]/Profile::Imanage::Comms::Comms/Imanage95::Comms[internal]/Registry_value[32:HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Interwoven\Worksite\imEmailSvc\Bad Directory] (err): Could not evaluate: incomplete "\x00" on UTF-16LE

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C:/ProgramData/PuppetLabs/puppet/cache/lib/puppet/provider/registry_value/registry.rb:103:in `block (2 levels) in regvalue'

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C:/ProgramData/PuppetLabs/puppet/cache/lib/puppet/provider/registry_value/registry.rb:98:in `regvalue'

C:/ProgramData/PuppetLabs/puppet/cache/lib/puppet/provider/registry_value/registry.rb:80:in `type'

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C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/puppet/lib/ruby/2.5.0/benchmark.rb:308:in `realtime'

C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util.rb:513:in `thinmark'

C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/resource/catalog.rb:238:in `block in apply'

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C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/resource/catalog.rb:237:in `apply'

C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/configurer.rb:192:in `block (2 levels) in apply_catalog'

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C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/puppet/lib/ruby/2.5.0/benchmark.rb:308:in `realtime'

C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util.rb:513:in `thinmark'

C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/configurer.rb:191:in `block in apply_catalog'

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