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

Products

• Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense)
• Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR (formerly Cb Threathunter)

Issue/Introduction

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".

Environment

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

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