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Carbon Black Cloud: Error: "403 Forbidden" or "Authorization Failed" When Downloading the Linux Sensor

Carbon Black Cloud: Error: "403 Forbidden" or "Authorization Failed" When Downloading the Linux Sensor

Environment

  • Carbon Black Cloud Sensor: 2.11.2 and Higher
  • Linux: All Versions

Symptoms

Upon downloading the sensor by using the command:
wget "https://transfer.vmware.com/download?domain=carbonblack&id=0e52291fa8e84c0eb110cd902ee07c4b-5f097fa71a5743cba064e0dcae6b9a82" -O public.asc
An error is received that says, "Authorization Failed" or "403 Forbidden".

Cause

The browser is running with a specific "User-Agent".

Resolution

Emulate the browser:

wget -U "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.106 Safari/537.36" "http://transfer.vmware.com/download?domain=carbonblack&id=0e52291fa8e84c0eb110cd902ee07c4b-5f097fa71a5743cba064e0dcae6b9a82" -O public.asc

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