diff --git a/dspace-api/src/test/java/org/dspace/AbstractIntegrationTestWithDatabase.java b/dspace-api/src/test/java/org/dspace/AbstractIntegrationTestWithDatabase.java
index d5bb6ab8a4c8..ec85f5bbaf16 100644
--- a/dspace-api/src/test/java/org/dspace/AbstractIntegrationTestWithDatabase.java
+++ b/dspace-api/src/test/java/org/dspace/AbstractIntegrationTestWithDatabase.java
@@ -166,30 +166,71 @@ public void setUp() throws Exception {
      */
     @After
     public void destroy() throws Exception {
-        // Cleanup our global context object
+        // Contain the blast radius of teardown failures: the shared static state (Solr cores, authority
+        // cache, configuration, builder cache) must be reset regardless of whether builder cleanup threw.
+        // Otherwise a single flake in one test's teardown poisons every subsequent test in the class.
+        Exception primaryFailure = null;
+
         try {
             AbstractBuilder.cleanupObjects();
-            parentCommunity = null;
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            primaryFailure = new RuntimeException("Error cleaning up builder objects", e);
+        }
+        parentCommunity = null;
+        try {
             cleanupContext();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            if (primaryFailure == null) {
+                primaryFailure = new RuntimeException("Error cleaning up context object", e);
+            } else {
+                primaryFailure.addSuppressed(e);
+            }
+        }
+        try {
+            resetSharedState();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            if (primaryFailure == null) {
+                primaryFailure = e;
+            } else {
+                primaryFailure.addSuppressed(e);
+            }
+        }
+        if (primaryFailure != null) {
+            throw primaryFailure;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reset all shared static state between tests: Solr cores, authority cache, configuration
+     * service, and the builder cache. Called from {@link #destroy()} inside a finally block so this always
+     * runs, even if earlier teardown steps failed.
+     *
+     * @throws Exception if reloading configuration or resetting the builder cache fails
+     */
+    private void resetSharedState() throws Exception {
+        ServiceManager serviceManager = DSpaceServicesFactory.getInstance().getServiceManager();
 
-            ServiceManager serviceManager = DSpaceServicesFactory.getInstance().getServiceManager();
-            // Clear the search core.
-            MockSolrSearchCore searchService = serviceManager
-                    .getServiceByName(null, MockSolrSearchCore.class);
-            searchService.reset();
-            // Clear the statistics core.
-            serviceManager
-                    .getServiceByName(SolrStatisticsCore.class.getName(), MockSolrStatisticsCore.class)
-                    .reset();
+        // Clear the search core.
+        MockSolrSearchCore searchService = serviceManager
+                .getServiceByName(null, MockSolrSearchCore.class);
+        searchService.reset();
 
-            MockSolrLoggerServiceImpl statisticsService = serviceManager
-                    .getServiceByName("solrLoggerService", MockSolrLoggerServiceImpl.class);
-            statisticsService.reset();
+        // Clear the statistics core.
+        serviceManager
+                .getServiceByName(SolrStatisticsCore.class.getName(), MockSolrStatisticsCore.class)
+                .reset();
 
-            MockAuthoritySolrServiceImpl authorityService = serviceManager
-                    .getServiceByName(AuthoritySearchService.class.getName(), MockAuthoritySolrServiceImpl.class);
-            authorityService.reset();
+        // Reset the statistics logger service
+        MockSolrLoggerServiceImpl loggerService = serviceManager
+                .getServiceByName("solrLoggerService", MockSolrLoggerServiceImpl.class);
+        loggerService.reset();
 
+        // Clear the authority core.
+        MockAuthoritySolrServiceImpl authorityService = serviceManager
+                .getServiceByName(AuthoritySearchService.class.getName(), MockAuthoritySolrServiceImpl.class);
+        authorityService.reset();
+
+        try {
             // Reload our ConfigurationService (to reset configs to defaults again)
             DSpaceServicesFactory.getInstance().getConfigurationService().reloadConfig();
 
diff --git a/dspace-api/src/test/java/org/dspace/builder/util/AbstractBuilderCleanupUtil.java b/dspace-api/src/test/java/org/dspace/builder/util/AbstractBuilderCleanupUtil.java
index 18f1f82c290a..d41b9768f3e1 100644
--- a/dspace-api/src/test/java/org/dspace/builder/util/AbstractBuilderCleanupUtil.java
+++ b/dspace-api/src/test/java/org/dspace/builder/util/AbstractBuilderCleanupUtil.java
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
 import org.dspace.builder.AbstractBuilder;
 import org.dspace.builder.BitstreamBuilder;
 import org.dspace.builder.BitstreamFormatBuilder;
@@ -48,6 +50,8 @@
  */
 public class AbstractBuilderCleanupUtil {
 
+    private static final Logger log = LogManager.getLogger(AbstractBuilderCleanupUtil.class);
+
     private final LinkedHashMap<String, List<AbstractBuilder>> map
             = new LinkedHashMap<>();
 
@@ -104,15 +108,34 @@ public void addToMap(AbstractBuilder abstractBuilder) {
     /**
      * This method takes care of iterating over all the AbstractBuilders in the predefined order and calls
      * the cleanup method to delete the objects from the database.
-     * @throws Exception    If something goes wrong
+     * <p>
+     * Each builder is cleaned up inside its own try/catch so that a single failure (e.g. the intermittent
+     * Hibernate {@link java.util.ConcurrentModificationException} in resource registry cleanup) does not
+     * abort cleanup of the remaining builders. The first failure is rethrown at the end with any subsequent
+     * failures attached as suppressed exceptions, so nothing is silently swallowed.
+     * </p>
+     * @throws Exception    If one or more builders fail to clean up
      */
     public void cleanupBuilders() throws Exception {
+        Exception firstFailure = null;
         for (Map.Entry<String, List<AbstractBuilder>> entry : map.entrySet()) {
             List<AbstractBuilder> list = entry.getValue();
             for (AbstractBuilder abstractBuilder : list) {
-                abstractBuilder.cleanup();
+                try {
+                    abstractBuilder.cleanup();
+                } catch (Exception e) {
+                    log.error("Error cleaning up builder {}", abstractBuilder.getClass().getName(), e);
+                    if (firstFailure == null) {
+                        firstFailure = e;
+                    } else {
+                        firstFailure.addSuppressed(e);
+                    }
+                }
             }
         }
+        if (firstFailure != null) {
+            throw firstFailure;
+        }
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/dspace-api/src/test/java/org/dspace/content/packager/ITDSpaceAIP.java b/dspace-api/src/test/java/org/dspace/content/packager/ITDSpaceAIP.java
index c5a73ed539a7..ae9f33270999 100644
--- a/dspace-api/src/test/java/org/dspace/content/packager/ITDSpaceAIP.java
+++ b/dspace-api/src/test/java/org/dspace/content/packager/ITDSpaceAIP.java
@@ -310,7 +310,6 @@ public void init() {
     @After
     @Override
     public void destroy() {
-        context.abort();
         super.destroy();
     }