diff --git a/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Guid.Unix.cs b/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Guid.Unix.cs
index ca0a63de87a5b5..cf9db7721d208c 100644
--- a/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Guid.Unix.cs
+++ b/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Guid.Unix.cs
@@ -33,5 +33,20 @@ public static unsafe Guid NewGuid()
 
             return g;
         }
+
+        // Returns a Guid whose bytes 6..15 contain cryptographically-secure random data, as
+        // required by CreateVersion7. Bytes 0..5 are intentionally left uninitialized; the
+        // caller overwrites them with the unix_ts_ms timestamp.
+        private static unsafe Guid CreateVersion7Random()
+        {
+            Unsafe.SkipInit(out Guid g);
+#if !TARGET_WASI
+            Interop.GetCryptographicallySecureRandomBytes((byte*)&g + 6, 10);
+#else
+            // TODOWASI: crypto secure random bytes
+            Interop.GetRandomBytes((byte*)&g + 6, 10);
+#endif
+            return g;
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Guid.Windows.cs b/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Guid.Windows.cs
index acef4c79a976fc..7e69b0dafa02f2 100644
--- a/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Guid.Windows.cs
+++ b/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Guid.Windows.cs
@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ public static unsafe Guid NewGuid()
             return g;
         }
 
+        // Returns a Guid whose bytes 6..15 contain cryptographically-secure random data, as
+        // required by CreateVersion7. Bytes 0..5 are unspecified; the caller overwrites them
+        // with the unix_ts_ms timestamp.
+        //
+        // On Windows we keep using CoCreateGuid via NewGuid: it has been measured to be
+        // faster than BCryptGenRandom for this size class, and the 6 bytes that get
+        // overwritten by the timestamp don't make BCryptGenRandom competitive.
+        private static Guid CreateVersion7Random() => NewGuid();
+
         private static void ThrowForHr(int hr)
         {
             // We don't expect that this will ever throw an error, none are even documented, and so we don't want to pull
diff --git a/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Guid.cs b/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Guid.cs
index 60b6b289991ca3..5fd34e137cca00 100644
--- a/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Guid.cs
+++ b/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Guid.cs
@@ -305,13 +305,6 @@ public Guid(string g)
         /// </remarks>
         public static Guid CreateVersion7(DateTimeOffset timestamp)
         {
-            // NewGuid uses CoCreateGuid on Windows and Interop.GetCryptographicallySecureRandomBytes on Unix to get
-            // cryptographically-secure random bytes. We could use Interop.BCrypt.BCryptGenRandom to generate the random
-            // bytes on Windows, as is done in RandomNumberGenerator, but that's measurably slower than using CoCreateGuid.
-            // And while CoCreateGuid only generates 122 bits of randomness, the other 6 bits being for the version / variant
-            // fields, this method also needs those bits to be non-random, so we can just use NewGuid for efficiency.
-            Guid result = NewGuid();
-
             // 2^48 is roughly 8925.5 years, which from the Unix Epoch means we won't
             // overflow until around July of 10,895. So there isn't any need to handle
             // it given that DateTimeOffset.MaxValue is December 31, 9999. However, we
@@ -321,6 +314,13 @@ public static Guid CreateVersion7(DateTimeOffset timestamp)
             long unix_ts_ms = timestamp.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
             ArgumentOutOfRangeException.ThrowIfNegative(unix_ts_ms, nameof(timestamp));
 
+            // UUIDv7 only consumes 74 bits of randomness, which fit in the trailing 10 bytes
+            // of the GUID (12 bits of rand_a in bytes 6..7 next to the 4-bit version field,
+            // and 62 bits of rand_b in bytes 8..15 next to the 2-bit variant field). Bytes 0..5
+            // are overwritten with unix_ts_ms below, so the platform-specific helper only needs
+            // to ensure bytes 6..15 of the returned Guid contain crypto-secure random data.
+            Guid result = CreateVersion7Random();
+
             Unsafe.AsRef(in result._a) = (int)(unix_ts_ms >> 16);
             Unsafe.AsRef(in result._b) = (short)(unix_ts_ms);