diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 78e401b03c7..a68f19bd098 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4080,7 +4080,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "itoa",
  "rand 0.9.2",
  "rand_chacha 0.9.0",
- "rand_core 0.9.5",
  "rustc-hash",
  "sha3",
  "uucore",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 607b1b198de..7c6d736adc2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -366,7 +366,6 @@ platform-info = "2.0.3"
 procfs = "0.18"
 rand = { version = "0.9.0", features = ["small_rng"] }
 rand_chacha = { version = "0.9.0" }
-rand_core = "0.9.0"
 rayon = "1.10"
 regex = "1.10.4"
 rlimit = "0.11.0"
diff --git a/src/uu/shuf/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/shuf/Cargo.toml
index cd2c5007267..dff8fbb3af7 100644
--- a/src/uu/shuf/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/shuf/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ clap = { workspace = true }
 itoa = { workspace = true }
 rand = { workspace = true }
 rand_chacha = { workspace = true }
-rand_core = { workspace = true }
 sha3 = { workspace = true }
 uucore = { workspace = true }
 fluent = { workspace = true }