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 The Blacklist 1 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.
The Blacklist 1
Vj Junior Series 43h 03m 8 years ago

A new FBI profiler, Elizabeth Keen, has her entire life uprooted when a mysterious criminal, Raymond Reddington, who has eluded capture for decades, turns himself in and insists on speaking only to her.

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 API Response Evidence — Vulnerability Proof
Endpoint called GET /api/preview/v2/3797/0
User ID used 0 (no user / not logged in)
JWT used Expired Feb 2024 (extracted from APK)
issubscriber false
user_access
paid_for YES (premium content)
substatus EXPIRED
serverhost 61
video_name THE BLACKLIST S01 E01-JR.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",
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    "serverhost": "61",
    "allow_openload": "0",
    "full_video_name": "",
    "duration": "43h 03m",
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    "tfilehistory": " ~ 350923719862.jpg ~ ",
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    "size": "615.95 MB",
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    "network_id": "154.227.131.200",
    "user_access": "",
    "notification": "No",
    "secduration": "154980.000000",
    "issubscriber": false,
    "genre": "Series",
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    "trailer_playing_url": "",
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    "nxt_eps_title": "The Blacklist 2",
    "nxt_ldur": 0,
    "nxt_playing_url": "https://munowatch.co/clips/ELI.mp4",
    "playingUrl": "https://munowatch.co/clips/ELI.mp4",
    "ldur": 0,
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    "device": "web",
    "lang_name": "English to Luganda",
    "vjrelease": "8 years ago",
    "mstatus": false,
    "kstatus": "",
    "substatus": "EXPIRED"
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