Remove ability for customers to use unprotected HTTP modules

[christopherholland-workday]

Remove ability for customers to use unprotected HTTP modules, they should use secure dependencies instead.

axios and node-fetch are secured via module replacement

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request significantly enhances the application's security by restricting the direct use of built-in Node.js HTTP and network modules. By removing http, https, net, and tls from the list of allowed built-in dependencies, the system ensures that users leverage secure, pre-vetted alternatives like axios and node-fetch, which are already managed through robust module replacement mechanisms.

Highlights

• Security Enhancement: Removed direct access to potentially insecure built-in Node.js modules (http, https, net, tls) from the defaultAllowBuiltInDep list. This change encourages the use of secure, pre-configured alternatives for network requests.

Changelog

• packages/components/src/utils.ts
  • Removed 'http', 'https', 'net', and 'tls' from the defaultAllowBuiltInDep array, preventing direct usage of these built-in modules.

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Code Review

This pull request aims to enhance security by preventing custom code from using unprotected HTTP modules. It achieves this by removing http, https, net, and tls from the list of built-in modules allowed within the NodeVM sandbox. While the intention is good, I've identified a critical issue: this change will likely break several allowed external dependencies (e.g., AWS SDK) that depend on these core modules, causing widespread functional regressions. My review includes a detailed comment on this critical issue.