AsianFin -- China’s National Vulnerability Database (NVDB), a cybersecurity platform under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said on Wednesday it had identified a high-risk security flaw in Apple’s operating systems that has already been exploited in cyberattacks.

According to NVDB, the out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in the ImageIO framework of iOS, iPadOS and macOS. The flaw could be triggered when processing malicious image files, potentially leading to memory corruption and enabling attackers to compromise affected devices.

Apple has since patched the vulnerability and issued a security advisory, NVDB noted. The watchdog urged organizations and individual users to carry out immediate risk assessments and update their devices to the latest software versions to mitigate the threat of exploitation.