work in progress: replace vm2 and vm with isolated-vm

hosting/single/Dockerfile

@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ HEALTHCHECK --interval=15s --timeout=15s --start-period=45s CMD "/healthcheck.sh
 
 # must set this just before running
 ENV NODE_ENV=production
+# this is required for isolated-vm to work on Node 20+
+ENV NODE_OPTIONS="--no-node-snapshot"
 WORKDIR /
 
 CMD ["./runner.sh"]

packages/server/Dockerfile

@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ EXPOSE 4001
 # due to this causing yarn to stop installing dev dependencies
 # which are actually needed to get this environment up and running
 ENV NODE_ENV=production
+# this is required for isolated-vm to work on Node 20+
+ENV NODE_OPTIONS="--no-node-snapshot"
 ENV CLUSTER_MODE=${CLUSTER_MODE}
 ENV TOP_LEVEL_PATH=/app
 

packages/server/nodemon.json

@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@
   ],
   "ext": "js,ts,json",
   "ignore": ["src/**/*.spec.ts", "src/**/*.spec.js", "../*/dist/**/*"],
-  "exec": "yarn build && node ./dist/index.js"
+  "exec": "yarn build && node --no-node-snapshot ./dist/index.js"
 }

packages/server/package.json

@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
     "google-auth-library": "7.12.0",
     "google-spreadsheet": "3.2.0",
     "ioredis": "5.3.2",
+    "isolated-vm": "^4.6.0",
     "jimp": "0.16.1",
     "joi": "17.6.0",
     "js-yaml": "4.1.0",
@@ -106,7 +107,6 @@
     "to-json-schema": "0.2.5",
     "uuid": "3.3.2",
     "validate.js": "0.13.1",
-    "vm2": "^3.9.19",
     "worker-farm": "1.7.0",
     "xml2js": "0.5.0"
   },

packages/server/scripts/test.sh

@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@ set -e
 if [[ -n $CI ]]
 then
   # Running in ci, where resources are limited
-  export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=4096"
+  export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=4096 --no-node-snapshot"
   echo "jest --coverage --maxWorkers=2 --forceExit --workerIdleMemoryLimit=2000MB --bail"
   jest --coverage --maxWorkers=2 --forceExit --workerIdleMemoryLimit=2000MB --bail
 else
   # --maxWorkers performs better in development
+  export NODE_OPTIONS="--no-node-snapshot"
   echo "jest --coverage --maxWorkers=2 --forceExit"
   jest --coverage --maxWorkers=2 --forceExit
 fi

packages/server/src/jsRunner.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import vm from "vm"
+import ivm from "isolated-vm"
 import env from "./environment"
 import { setJSRunner } from "@budibase/string-templates"
 import { context, timers } from "@budibase/backend-core"
@@ -31,18 +32,31 @@ export function init() {
         }
       }
 
-      ctx = {
-        ...ctx,
-        alert: undefined,
-        setInterval: undefined,
-        setTimeout: undefined,
+      const isolate = new ivm.Isolate({ memoryLimit: 64 })
+      const vm = isolate.createContextSync()
+      const jail = vm.global
+      jail.setSync("global", jail.derefInto())
+
+      for (let key in ctx) {
+        let value
+        if (["alert", "setInterval", "setTimeout"].includes(key)) {
+          value = undefined
+        } else {
+          value = ctx[key]
+        }
+        jail.setSync(
+          key,
+          new ivm.ExternalCopy(value).copyInto({ release: true })
+        )
       }
-      vm.createContext(ctx)
-      return track(() =>
-        vm.runInNewContext(js, ctx, {
+
+      const script = isolate.compileScriptSync(js)
+
+      return track(() => {
+        return script.runSync(vm, {
           timeout: env.JS_PER_EXECUTION_TIME_LIMIT_MS,
         })
-      )
+      })
     })
   })
 }

packages/server/src/utilities/scriptRunner.ts

@@ -1,29 +1,64 @@
-import fetch from "node-fetch"
-import { VM, VMScript } from "vm2"
+import ivm, { Context, Script } from "isolated-vm"
 
 const JS_TIMEOUT_MS = 1000
 
 class ScriptRunner {
-  vm: VM
-  results: { out: string }
-  script: VMScript
+  vm: IsolatedVM
 
   constructor(script: string, context: any) {
     const code = `let fn = () => {\n${script}\n}; results.out = fn();`
-    this.vm = new VM({
-      timeout: JS_TIMEOUT_MS,
-    })
-    this.results = { out: "" }
-    this.vm.setGlobals(context)
-    this.vm.setGlobal("fetch", fetch)
-    this.vm.setGlobal("results", this.results)
-    this.script = new VMScript(code)
+    this.vm = new IsolatedVM({ memoryLimit: 8 })
+    this.vm.context = {
+      data: context.data,
+      params: context.params,
+      results: { out: "" },
+    }
+    this.vm.code = code
   }
 
   execute() {
-    this.vm.run(this.script)
-    return this.results.out
+    this.vm.runScript()
+    const results = this.vm.getValue("results")
+    return results.out
   }
 }
 
+class IsolatedVM {
+  isolate: ivm.Isolate
+  vm: ivm.Context
+  jail: ivm.Reference
+  script: any
+
+  constructor({ memoryLimit }: { memoryLimit: number }) {
+    this.isolate = new ivm.Isolate({ memoryLimit })
+    this.vm = this.isolate.createContextSync()
+    this.jail = this.vm.global
+    this.jail.setSync("global", this.jail.derefInto())
+  }
+
+  getValue(key: string) {
+    const ref = this.vm.global.getSync(key, { reference: true })
+    const result = ref.copySync()
+    ref.release()
+    return result
+  }
+
+  set context(context: Record<string, any>) {
+    for (let key in context) {
+      this.jail.setSync(key, this.copyRefToVm(context[key]))
+    }
+  }
+
+  set code(code: string) {
+    this.script = this.isolate.compileScriptSync(code)
+  }
+
+  runScript() {
+    this.script.runSync(this.vm, { timeout: JS_TIMEOUT_MS })
+  }
+
+  copyRefToVm(value: Object): ivm.Copy<Object> {
+    return new ivm.ExternalCopy(value).copyInto({ release: true })
+  }
+}
 export default ScriptRunner

packages/worker/Dockerfile

@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ EXPOSE 4001
 # due to this causing yarn to stop installing dev dependencies
 # which are actually needed to get this environment up and running
 ENV NODE_ENV=production
+# this is required for isolated-vm to work on Node 20+
+ENV NODE_OPTIONS="--no-node-snapshot"
 ENV CLUSTER_MODE=${CLUSTER_MODE}
 ENV SERVICE=worker-service
 ENV POSTHOG_TOKEN=phc_bIjZL7oh2GEUd2vqvTBH8WvrX0fWTFQMs6H5KQxiUxU

packages/worker/nodemon.json

@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@
   ],
   "ext": "js,ts,json",
   "ignore": ["src/**/*.spec.ts", "src/**/*.spec.js", "../*/dist/**/*"],
-  "exec": "yarn build && node dist/index.js"
+  "exec": "yarn build && node --no-node-snapshot dist/index.js"
 }