Watch — Dashing Youth 29

SECURITY PoC — NO AUTH

CDN bypass demo: stream served without an auth header

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Dashing Youth 29 — Episodes (40 of 40)

CDN bypass demonstration The API returned playingUrl for Dashing Youth 29 with issubscriber: false and user_access: deny. The video above plays from Munowatch's own CDN with zero authentication.

Security research evidence Inspect entitlement results, CDN URLs, and the raw API response Access control failed

API response evidence

Endpoint called GET /api/preview/v2/52197/0

User ID used 0 (no user / not logged in)

JWT used Expired Feb 2024 (extracted from APK)

issubscriber false

user_access deny

paid_for YES (premium content)

substatus EXPIRED

serverhost 65

video_name 29 .Dashing youth vj banks (2).mp4

playingUrl returned YES — URL in response

API playingUrl value https://munowatch.co/clips/ELI.mp4

CDN demo stream https://nkuba.b-cdn.net/cleve48/cfr/In.The.Grey.mp4

Finding: The server sets user_access=deny and issubscriber=false but still returns playingUrl in the same response. Subscription is enforced client-side only — any caller with the expired APK JWT can obtain stream URLs without a subscription. Munowatch CDN (b-cdn.net) serves content with no auth required (direct HTTP Range requests succeed with HTTP 206).

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    "id": 52197,
    "video_title": "Dashing Youth 29",
    "description": " Baili Dong Jun, the youngest son of the Hou Mansion in Zhenxi, was very stubborn even as a child.",
    "video_name": "29 .Dashing youth vj banks (2).mp4",
    "filehistory": "",
    "openload": "0",
    "embedurl": "",
    "serverhost": "65",
    "allow_openload": "0",
    "full_video_name": "",
    "duration": "45h 10m",
    "thumbnail": "https://apposters.b-cdn.net/laba/yo/naki/5yGUs1kSza4408.jpg",
    "tfilehistory": "",
    "category_id": 5,
    "language_id": 1,
    "recording_date": "2024-09-26",
    "age_id": "PG",
    "location": 1,
    "tab_category_id": 5,
    "series_code": "96048",
    "access": "1",
    "paid_for": "1",
    "new_movie": "1",
    "priority": "No",
    "size": "292.52 MB",
    "create_date": "2024-09-26 09:09:02",
    "schedule_date": "26.09.2024 03:31:39 PM",
    "user_id": 1118356,
    "vj_id": 43,
    "video_status_id": 0,
    "network_id": "45.221.8.174",
    "user_access": "deny",
    "notification": "",
    "secduration": "162600.000000",
    "issubscriber": false,
    "genre": "Series",
    "vjname": "Vj Banks",
    "trailer_playing_url": "",
    "episodes": 40,
    "episode_state": "NEXT",
    "nxt_eps": "EPS   30",
    "nxt_eps_id": 52198,
    "nxt_eps_title": "Dashing Youth 30",
    "nxt_ldur": 0,
    "nxt_playing_url": "https://munowatch.co/clips/ELI.mp4",
    "playingUrl": "https://munowatch.co/clips/ELI.mp4",
    "ldur": 0,
    "session_id": "cb99afb5b31411a57538a97393de0e2e",
    "device": "web",
    "lang_name": "English to Luganda",
    "vjrelease": "2 years ago",
    "mstatus": false,
    "kstatus": "",
    "substatus": "EXPIRED"
}