CWE-332Insufficient Entropy in PRNG

Abstraction: Variant · CVEs in our corpus: 10

The lack of entropy available for, or used by, a Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) can be a stability and security threat.

Last updated: 20 August 2026 13:14 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 · 2 mapping(s) from 2 framework(s): STIG oracle linux 8 1 (mostly) · STIG rhel 8 1 (mostly)

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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)

SC-12 Cryptographic Key Establishment and Management
PR.PS-06
SC-12 Cryptographic Key Establishment and Management
SC-13 Cryptographic Protection

Detect

Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

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Harden

Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

3 hardening rules · 2 OS baselines

Validate

Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

V7.2.3
V11.5.1

NIST 800-53 r5 controls that address this weakness (1)AI-assisted

Control	Title	Family	Why it addresses this CWE
`SC-12`	Cryptographic Key Establishment and Management	SC	Managed key generation relies on PRNGs seeded and operated with adequate entropy, avoiding the listed weakness.

Top CVEs of this weakness type, ranked by Risk Priority

CVE	Risk	CVSS	EPSS	Published
`CVE-2018-9057`	7.7	9.8	0.0195	2018-03-27
`CVE-2016-10743`	6.3	7.5	0.0235	2019-03-23
`CVE-2016-9154`	6.1	7.5	0.0150	2016-12-23
`CVE-2017-18486`	6.1	7.2	0.0481	2019-08-09
`CVE-2014-9690`	6.0	7.5	0.0081	2017-04-02
`CVE-2023-20107`	6.0	7.5	0.0072	2023-03-23
`CVE-2019-1715`	4.8	5.3	0.0171	2019-05-03
`CVE-2014-0016`	3.8	0.0	0.0215	2014-03-24
`CVE-2017-9371`	2.6	2.6	0.0081	2017-11-14