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Case study May 2, 2026

"No. 18 Institute of Jingdong HQ": 26-Node Cluster, China Unicom

Sector
Universities
Country
jingdong

NuClide Research · 2026-05-02


Summary

A 26-node Ollama cluster on China Unicom’s 111.228.0.0/16 range, all registered to org eleven street,No. 18 Institute of Jingdong headquarters. The org name reads as a Chinese physical address (Jingdong district, No. 18 compound), suggesting a large research institute or corporate campus. All nodes run Ollama v0.5.10, a 2023-era version, indicating a static, long-running deployment. Primary models across the cluster: deepseek-r1:1.5b (17 nodes), llama3.2:3b (15 nodes), nomic-embed-text (11 nodes, RAG pipeline). The uniform version and model distribution suggests centralized administration with individual researcher nodes.


Cluster Infrastructure

FieldValue
Orgeleven street,No. 18 Institute of Jingdong headquarters
IP range111.228.0.0/16 (China Unicom)
CountryChina
Nodes26+ live (43 confirmed in inst-state)
Ollama versionv0.5.10 (all nodes)
Open port11434 (public on all nodes)

Model Distribution (cluster-wide)

ModelNodes
deepseek-r1:1.5b17
llama3.2:3b15
nomic-embed-text:latest11
smollm2:135m5
qwen2.5:1.5b1
qwen2.5:7b1
qwen2.5:3b1
codeqwen:7b1
freehuntx/qwen3-coder:14b1
aliafshar/gemma3-it-qat-tools:27b1
bge-m3:latest1
mxbai-embed-large:latest1

Notable Nodes

IPVersionModelsSystem Prompt
111.228.47.10.5.107Qwen: “You are Qwen, created by Alibaba Cloud.”
111.228.44.720.15.22Qwen2.5-3b: default
111.228.59.440.5.102codeqwen: “You are a helpful assistant.”
111.228.47.1960.17.72,

Findings

F1: 26-Node Cluster, All Public on 0.0.0.0:11434 (CRITICAL)

All 26 nodes expose Ollama on the public internet without authentication. The cluster spans a /16 subnet, suggesting a large campus or research compound with many individual researcher workstations or assigned VMs.

F2: Stale Version Across Entire Cluster (HIGH)

Every node runs v0.5.10, a November 2023 release. No node has been updated in over 18 months. The uniform version across 26 nodes indicates either: centralized deployment that was never patched, or a managed image used for researcher VMs. All known Ollama CVEs (CVE-2025-63389, SSRF via /api/pull) apply.

F3: RAG Pipeline Signal (11 nomic-embed-text nodes) (MEDIUM)

11 nodes have nomic-embed-text:latest alongside generative models, standard RAG pipeline configuration. Whatever these nodes are processing, vector embeddings are being generated locally.

F4: Model Injection on All Nodes (CRITICAL)

CVE-2025-63389 applies. Single /api/create call injects a persistent system prompt across any of the 26 nodes.


Remediation

OLLAMA_HOST=127.0.0.1:11434
systemctl restart ollama

Disclosure

  • Discovered: 2026-05-02
  • Status: Institution identity unconfirmed, pending further OSINT