Hello,
I have a user in my org receiving the same error message when pushing code.
The user's IC version is 2.4.0.0, but doesn't have an option to update. Salesforce CLI and IntelliJ are also up to date. Their license is up to date and active, and they've disconnected and reconnected their CLI and target instance and reauthenticated.
This is preventing them from pushing in IntelliJ IC, but they can still do this through VS Code.
Replying to stay in the loop.