Are you having the problem in CruiseControl.NET 1.8.4? We encountered it when trying to upgrade from CruiseControl.NET 1.8.3 to CruiseControl.NET 1.8.4, on the MultiSourceControl for svn. Regular SVN is OK.
Looks like this issue was fixed in a patch from 5 months ago on 09/12/2013. However 1.8.4 was put together on 09/01/2013. It should be fixed in the next release of CruiseControl.NET 1.8.5: