[POC] Use WebAssembly build of package-spec for package validation#128076
[POC] Use WebAssembly build of package-spec for package validation#128076joshdover wants to merge 1 commit intoelastic:mainfrom
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@elastic/kibana-security I noticed that we have no other usages of WASM in Kibana today. Are there any known reasons we can't or shouldn't pursue this option? |
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Thanks for asking! I'll let others on the team respond do your direct usage, which appears to be server-side. I don't know enough to have an opinion one way or another here. For client-side WASM, we would likely need a CSP that included either |
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I agree with Larry's earlier assessment. If we use WASM on the server-side and compile only the module we ship, then I don't have any significant security-related concerns. I just left few performance related questions and it'd be great if we can avoid polluting the global scope with Go wasm helper.
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| const validator = await WebAssembly.instantiate(wasmBuffer, go.importObject); |
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nit: if it's called multiple times then it'd probably make sense to compile module just once and reuse it for instantiation (with new WebAssembly.Module or WebAssembly.compile).
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| const wasmBuffer = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'validator.wasm')); |
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question: Just curious, I see this module is about 12mb, I assume it's not optimized yet (with more aggressive build optimization flags, wasm-opt and friends)?
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Yep we still need to explore making this smaller and distribute it via a proper npm module. This is currently being built with go-wasm, but I think it would make sense to look at tinygo.
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| const go = new Go(); |
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question: I'm not familiar with wasm_exec.js\tinygo, is it possible to use its importObject without polluting the global scope with Go?
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Without editing the wasm_exec.js from Go (this is not from tinygo), I don't see a way. I think it would be a small edit though and I agree we shouldn't merge this in its current state (polluting the global scope).
Summary
Related to #115032
Uses a WebAssembly build from elastic/package-spec#285
This imports a WebAssembly (wasm) build of the package-spec validation code and applies it to all packages installed via upload. It will fail to install these packages if they do not pass the package-spec validation.
For instance, this fails on the
endpointpackage today with this error (due to elastic/package-spec#23):Maybe for now we make this a dev-only log warning to start?
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