Pritunl VPN null byte error

I recently started getting an error when I attempt to start the Pritunl service on Ubuntu Mate 20.04. Below is the traceback. Any help would be appreciated!

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/pritunl/bin/pritunl”, line 33, in
sys.exit(load_entry_point(‘pritunl==1.30.3236.80’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘pritunl’)())
File “/usr/lib/pritunl/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pritunl/main.py”, line 502, in main
pritunl.init_server()
File “/usr/lib/pritunl/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pritunl/init.py”, line 19, in init_server
from pritunl import setup
File “/usr/lib/pritunl/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pritunl/setup/init.py”, line 6, in
from pritunl.setup.mongo import setup_mongo, upsert_indexes
ValueError: source code string cannot contain null bytes

Check the value of mongodb_uri in /etc/pritunl.conf