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Case study May 1, 2026

University of Crete Medical Center: Dual-Embedding RAG Pipeline

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Universities
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NuClide Research · 2026-05-01


Summary

The University of Crete Medical Center (centaur.med.uoc.gr) is running Ollama with a sophisticated dual-embedding RAG pipeline, both mxbai-embed-large and nomic-embed-text are deployed alongside large language models (Llama 3.3, Qwen3-Coder, Mistral). Dual embedding models indicate a production RAG system over medical/research content, unauthenticated and injectable.


Infrastructure

FieldValue
IP147.52.71.221
rDNScentaur.med.uoc.gr
OrgUniversity of Crete
FacilityMedical Center (med.uoc.gr)
CountryGreece
Open ports11434 (Ollama, public)

Models

ModelSizeNotes
llama3.3:latest39 GBLarge LLM
qwen3-coder:30b17 GBCode model
qwen2.5-coder:latest4 GBCode model
qwen2.5:latest4 GB,
mistral:latest4 GB,
gemma3:latest3 GB,
mxbai-embed-large:latest0 GBEmbedding model 1, RAG pipeline
nomic-embed-text:latest0 GBEmbedding model 2, RAG pipeline

Findings

F1, Dual-Embedding RAG Pipeline on Medical Server (CRITICAL): Two embedding models (mxbai-embed-large + nomic-embed-text) running simultaneously indicates a production RAG system. On a medical university server, the document corpus likely includes medical research, clinical workflows, or patient-facing content. Model injection via CVE-2025-63389 affects all documents served through the RAG pipeline.

F2, Unauthenticated Medical Research Server (HIGH): centaur suggests an academic/mythological name for a compute node (common at Greek universities). All models accessible without credentials, researchers’ document-augmented queries are injectable.

F3, Model Injection (HIGH): All 8 models injectable via CVE-2025-63389.


Context

This is a separate institution from the Technical University of Crete (TUC, 147.27.38.32) documented in GR-tech-crete-ntua.md. University of Crete (UoC) is a public university with a medical school; centaur.med.uoc.gr is a named server in the medical faculty.


Disclosure

  • Discovered: 2026-05-01
  • Status: Pending outreach to UoC IT / GR-CERT (cert@cert.gr)