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Thermo Fisher Patches Forensic DNA File Tampering Flaw in Its Software

Thermo Fisher Scientific has released security updates for several Applied Biosystems human identification products after researchers identified a vulnerability that could allow nearly undetectable changes to forensic DNA data files. The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-17583, carries a CVSS score of 8.2 out of 10 (CVSS 4.0).

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The vulnerability specifically impacts .fsa and .hid output files generated by human-identification software. Thermo Fisher credited Nathan Adams, Kevin Dyer, Laura Gaydosh Combs, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) with identifying and coordinating disclosure of the vulnerability.

Exploitation would require laboratory controls to be bypassed, allowing .fsa and .hid files to be altered after generation but before they are loaded into analysis software. Because these files are used during human identification analysis, undetected changes could affect the reliability of forensic results.

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