xterm cursor not inverting properly with highlighted / reverse text

When opening an xterm on my Ubuntu 16.04.1 system, the cursor disappears whenever it's moved over highlighted / reversed text. It remains the same color as the foreground and completely blocks out the character it's on top of. On my CentOS 7 system which comes with a slightly older version of xterm (295 vs 322 on Ubuntu), the cursor color inverts properly (see the following screenshot): So far I've noticed this happening in alpine and vim; in bash/tcsh the cursor seems to work fine. The built-in terminal app and urxvt do not exhibit this problem at all. Any ideas on what might be causing this?