refactor(functions-backend): modernize functions emulator and remove dead functions-emulator dependency

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Security Audit & Remediation: firebase-functions-backend

A. Previous CVEs

Resolved 30 vulnerabilities (20 High, 1 Critical) by purging the deprecated @google-cloud/functions-emulator:

• Critical/High: Prototype Pollution in lodash (GHSA-fvqr-27wr-82fm, GHSA-35jh-r3h4-6jhm, GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574, GHSA-jf85-cpcp-j695, GHSA-p6mc-m468-83gw)
• High: Regular Expression Denial of Service in semver (GHSA-c2qf-rxjj-qqgw)
• High: Path Traversal/Write in tmp (GHSA-52f5-9888-hmc6, GHSA-ph9p-34f9-6g65)
• High: Denial of Service in http-proxy (GHSA-6x33-pw7p-hmpq)
• High: Regular Expression Denial of Service in http-cache-semantics (GHSA-rc47-6667-2j5j)
• High: Prototype Pollution / ASN.1 Unbounded Recursion / signature forgery in node-forge (GHSA-5rrq-pxf6-6jx5, GHSA-wxgw-qj99-44c2, GHSA-gf8q-jrpm-jvxq, GHSA-2r2c-g63r-vccr, GHSA-8fr3-hfg3-gpgp, GHSA-92xj-mqp7-vmcj, GHSA-x4jg-mjrx-434g, GHSA-cfm4-qjh2-4765, GHSA-554w-wpv2-vw27, GHSA-5gfm-wpxj-wjgq, GHSA-65ch-62r8-g69g, GHSA-2328-f5f3-gj25, GHSA-q67f-28xg-22rw, GHSA-5m6q-g25r-mvwx, GHSA-ppp5-5v6c-4jwp)
• Moderate: bracket notation arrayLimit DoS in qs (GHSA-6rw7-vpxm-498p)
• Moderate: Denial of Service in mem (GHSA-4xcv-9jjx-gfj3)
• Moderate: Prototype Pollution in yargs-parser (GHSA-p9pc-299p-vxgp)

B. Changes Made

• Purged the deprecated @google-cloud/functions-emulator ("dead cloud emulator") devDependency from package.json.
• Created firebase.json configuration file to run the Functions Emulator on port 5005.
• Rewrote the startup/ready-checking script from Bash (start.sh) into a robust cross-platform Node.js script (start.js) and updated CI workflow references and README instructions to invoke it directly.

C. Benefits of the Node.js Script over Bash

1. Deterministic Ready-Checking: Instead of using shell-level curl polling which can yield false positives or fail due to network redirect/error states, start.js performs raw TCP dials using standard net.Socket to verify the emulator is listening on port 5005.
2. Robust Process Management: Detaching and running the background emulator in synchronous mode is handled cleanly using Node's native process spawning APIs (detached: true and child.unref()), preventing the background process from being killed by shell-hangup signals (SIGHUP) during runner step transitions.
3. Unified Language: Since the Cloud Functions emulated code (index.js) is written in JavaScript, managing the emulator using Node.js keeps the stack consistent for SDK maintainers.

D. Remaining CVEs

• 9 moderate severity vulnerabilities caused transitively by uuid < 11.1.1 (required by firebase-admin).

E. Introduced CVEs

• None

F. Testing Strategy

• Verified JS syntax of the functions using node --check - 100% passing.
• Installed package dependencies using npm install and verified all packages resolved cleanly.

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Wiz Scan Summary

Scanner	Findings
Vulnerabilities	1
Sensitive Data	-
Secrets	-
IaC Misconfigurations	-
SAST Findings	1
Software Management Findings	-
Total	2

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[paulb777]

@inlined The CI issues should be resolved before review. Would you like assistance?

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Sorry, I got pulled into Extensions/Functions stuff and have had trouble getting XCode tools all ready. I'll get to this today