CWE-325Missing Cryptographic Step

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 67

The product does not implement a required step in a cryptographic algorithm, resulting in weaker encryption than advertised by the algorithm.

Last updated: 15 October 2026 14:21 UTC

Cumulative inbound coverage

How completely the frameworks we cross-walk collectively cover this — the verdict is the strongest single mapping (overlapping partials are not summed); breadth shows the corroboration behind it.

Collective: mostly · 7 mapping(s) from 6 framework(s): STIG oracle linux 8 2 (mostly) · STIG rhel 8 1 (mostly) · STIG ubuntu 22 04 1 (mostly) · STIG ubuntu 24 04 1 (mostly) · STIG oracle linux 9 1 (mostly) · STIG rhel 7 1 (partial)

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OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

This weakness contributes to A04:2025 Cryptographic Failures.

Control responseHuman-reviewed

Answering this weakness across the control lifecycle, from our framework cross-walks.

Prevent

Stop it (NIST 800-53 / CSF Protect)

PR.DS-01
PR.DS-02
PR.PS-06
SC-13 Cryptographic Protection

Detect

Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

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Harden

Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

14 hardening rules · 6 OS baselines

Validate

Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

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NIST 800-53 r5 controls PROPOSED for this weakness (0)AI-assisted

These are model PROPOSALS, not graded mappings. They come from controls_to_cwe_proposals, which carries no grade field at all; across the CWE pages 1,540 of 1,722 such associations (89%) have never been graded by anything. The heading said “address” until 2026-09-29, which asserted a relationship the data does not carry. Graded cross-walks are on the framework map, not here.

Control	Title	Family	Why it addresses this CWE
No NIST controls proposed yet.

Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE	Risk	CVSS	EPSS	Published
`CVE-2020-15086`	7.8	9.8	0.0356	2020-07-29
`CVE-2022-24116`	7.2	9.8	0.0030	2022-12-26
`CVE-2020-15098`	7.0	8.8	0.0223	2020-07-29
`CVE-2026-17666`	6.6	9.1	0.0017	2026-07-30
`CVE-2021-22946`	6.5	7.5	0.0454	2021-09-29
`CVE-2021-33560`	6.3	7.5	0.0237	2021-06-08
`CVE-2026-4601`	6.2	8.7	0.0047	2026-03-23
`CVE-2026-45445`	6.0	7.5	0.0070	2026-06-09
`CVE-2026-101294`	6.0	8.7	0.0021	2026-10-13
`CVE-2026-100798`	5.9	8.1	0.0020	2026-09-29
`CVE-2023-46129`	5.8	7.5	0.0037	2023-10-31
`CVE-2025-60704`	5.8	7.5	0.0057	2025-11-11
`CVE-2026-4258`	5.8	7.5	0.0036	2026-03-17
`CVE-2026-40542`	5.8	7.3	0.0070	2026-04-22
`CVE-2022-20742`	5.7	7.4	0.0046	2022-05-03
`CVE-2026-22863`	5.7	7.5	0.0020	2026-01-15
`CVE-2026-28498`	5.7	7.5	0.0027	2026-03-16
`CVE-2026-41395`	5.7	7.5	0.0025	2026-04-28
`CVE-2026-42246`	5.6	7.4	0.0031	2026-05-09
`CVE-2026-49440`	5.5	7.4	0.0024	2026-06-23
`CVE-2026-81235`	5.5	8.0	0.0024	2026-09-15
`CVE-2018-5383`	5.4	6.8	0.0081	2018-08-07
`CVE-2019-3738`	5.4	6.5	0.0168	2019-09-18
`CVE-2020-26244`	5.4	6.8	0.0083	2020-12-02
`CVE-2026-55144`	5.3	7.1	0.0022	2026-07-14