CodeWhale is a DeepSeek + MiMo coding agent in terminal. Prior to 0.8.22, 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.22.

Affected: crates.io: deepseek-tui, crates.io: deepseek-tui-cli, npm: deepseek-tui

### 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-…