CWE-334Small Space of Random Values

Abstraction: Base · CVEs in our corpus: 14

The number of possible random values is smaller than needed by the product, making it more susceptible to brute force attacks.

Last updated: 14 October 2026 20:41 UTC

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.PS-06
SC-12 Cryptographic Key Establishment and Management
IA-5 Authenticator Management
PR.AA-03

Detect

Catch it (CSF Detect / Respond)

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Harden

Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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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-2023-39979`	7.5	9.8	0.0098	2023-09-02
`CVE-2024-6890`	6.7	8.8	0.0072	2024-08-07
`CVE-2022-24402`	6.6	8.8	0.0061	2023-10-19
`CVE-2026-71851`	6.4	9.0	0.0055	2026-08-07
`CVE-2022-22517`	6.1	7.5	0.0132	2022-04-07
`CVE-2021-21955`	6.0	7.5	0.0101	2021-12-09
`CVE-2020-7566`	5.5	7.3	0.0030	2020-11-19
`CVE-2023-6951`	4.8	6.6	0.0029	2024-04-02
`CVE-2022-33707`	4.6	5.3	0.0082	2022-07-12
`CVE-2022-20941`	4.6	5.3	0.0070	2022-11-15
`CVE-2024-52616`	4.6	5.3	0.0067	2024-11-21
`CVE-2024-54017`	4.4	5.3	0.0031	2026-05-12
`CVE-2024-51720`	3.9	4.8	0.0032	2024-11-12