Add rules for whether a script works under ConstrainedLanguage mode

[SteveL-MSFT]

Summary of the new feature

Windows admins using Code Integrity may want to know if their scripts require full language mode or will work with constrained language mode. It would be helpful to have PSSA rule to let them know which parts of their scripts won't work under constrained language mode.

Addtionally, scripts running in a Code Integrity environment have some additional checks which may make sense to have as rules as well.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-constrained-language-mode

[rjmholt]

I honestly thought we already had an issue to track this since we've discussed it a few times in the past. But this would be nice to have. It probably would require some significant improvements in PSSA itself.

[brwilkinson]

Is this still outstanding, I thought there were some linting rules that detect syntax that is not compatible with constrained language mode? I guess not.

[TravisEz13]

We could make it a lot easier if we had a ScriptAnalyzer plugin which detected the things that the customer is not allowed in constrained language mode.  Below are some examples from a customer. 

• Method calls on non-white listed types.  They are looking for these strings:
  • ]::
  • .
• Add-Type.  Strings:
  • -Language CSharp
  • add-type
  • [DllImport
• dot sourcing is not allowed across language boundaries.  Strings
  • .
  • -file <script> <param>
    • Some cases of calling powershell this way is equivalent to dot sourcing.
  • We would probably just need to tell the user this is not allowed across language boundaries as we can only find the boundaries at runtime.

[bergmeister]

I suggest someone starts writing a custom rule and makes the code public. This decouples the request from needing to be in PSSA itself, integration into it could be looked at another point. Some of the above mentioned cases are already covered by custom rules written by Lee Holmes and published here: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/InjectionHunter/1.0.0

[TravisEz13]

I started with the module and I have detections for most of these issues, except the -file Githubissues.

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