CVE-2016-10743

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

2.35% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 82.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2019-03-23 18:55Z7 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 03:30Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2019-03-23

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-332Insufficient Entropy in PRNGVariant
• CWE-331Insufficient EntropyBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

7cb83e039b8b1c5bf730384b9166aaccba6aeb972227ae070119446d7f9c2bcc

• w1.fihttps://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=98a516eae8260e6fd5c48ddecf8d006285da7389x_refsource_MISC
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190328 [SECURITY] [DLA 1733-1] wpa security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00035.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3944-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3944-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20200227 Hostapd fails at seeding PRNGS, leading to insufficient entropy (CVE-2016-10743 and CVE-2019-10064)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/27/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20200227 Re: Hostapd fails at seeding PRNGS, leading to insufficient entropy (CVE-2016-10743 and CVE-2019-10064)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/27/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• seclists.org20200227 Hostapd fails at seeding PRNGS, leading to insufficient entropy (CVE-2016-10743 and CVE-2019-10064)http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Feb/26mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156573/Hostapd-Insufficient-Entropy.htmlx_refsource_MISC