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 Dong Yi 45 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.
Dong Yi 45
Vj Sammy Series 01h 02m 3 years ago

Dong-yi, a commoner, falls in love with the king. She also manages to win the trust of the queen and becomes her confidante. She shares her insights and helps the king with the court decisions.

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 API Response Evidence — Vulnerability Proof
Endpoint called GET /api/preview/v2/43129/0
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 58
video_name Dong Yi Episode 45.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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    "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": "",
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