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Case study May 3, 2026

Forskningsnettet (Danish Research and Education Network): Two Nodes, v0.3.0 Ancient + v0.22.0 Current

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forskningsnettet

NuClide Research · 2026-05-03


Summary

Two Ollama nodes in Aalborg, Denmark on AS1835 Forskningsnettet (the Danish national research and education network). One node (130.225.39.157) runs Ollama v0.3.0, a pre-release build from late 2023, making it one of the oldest Ollama deployments in this sweep. The second (130.225.39.201) runs the current v0.22.0. Both are unauthenticated and injectable. Neither has rDNS configured.


Infrastructure

NodeIPHostnameVersionModelsNotes
Node A130.225.39.201,0.22.03Current release
Node B130.225.39.157,0.3.04Ancient, pre-0.6 era

Both: AS1835 Forskningsnettet, Danish Network for Research and Education. City: Aalborg, North Denmark (57.0480, 9.9187). No rDNS on either.

A third node (130.225.37.103, RIPE aau-cloud allocation) was found with only smollm2:135m and llama3.2:3b, confirmed Aalborg University (AAU) cloud project allocation; minimal models, no cloud proxy at probe time.


Model Inventory: Node A (130.225.39.201, v0.22.0)

ModelNotes
gemma3:27bGoogle Gemma3 27B
nemotron3:33bNVIDIA Nemotron-3 33B
llama3.2:3bMeta Llama 3.2 3B

Model Inventory: Node B (130.225.39.157, v0.3.0)

ModelNotes
smollm2:135mSystem prompt: "You are a helpful AI assistant named SmolLM, trained by Hugging Face" (default unmodified)
llama3.2:3b,
llama3.2:latest,

Findings

F1: v0.3.0 Ancient Deployment (HIGH)

Node B (130.225.39.157) runs Ollama v0.3.0, a pre-release version from the v0.x era (pre-0.6.0, late 2023). This version predates all security audit history for Ollama, including the model management API changes introduced in v0.1.x and later hardening. CVE-2025-63389 applies (all versions, no patch); additional CVEs from the 2.5-year gap of unpatched versions may also apply.

F2: No rDNS, Institutional Attribution Unknown (MEDIUM)

Neither node has reverse DNS. Both are in the Forskningsnettet 130.225.39.0/24 block. The operator institution is not identifiable from public data, could be Aalborg University (AAU), a regional research institute, or another Forskningsnettet tenant.

F3: CVE-2025-63389 (CRITICAL)

All 6 models across both nodes are injectable via unauthenticated /api/create.

F4: Unauthenticated gemma3:27b + nemotron3:33b (MEDIUM)

Node A serves a 27B and 33B model to any internet actor. No cloud proxy involvement; pure local compute drain.


Remediation

# Both nodes
OLLAMA_HOST=127.0.0.1:11434
systemctl restart ollama

# Node B: update immediately
# Current: v0.3.0 (2023) → target v0.22.0
ollama --version  # verify post-update

Disclosure

  • Discovered: 2026-05-03
  • Status: Pending outreach to Forskningsnettet NOC / CERT (dk-cert.dk or Forskningsnettet abuse contact)