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Case study May 3, 2026

Technical University of Košice: MedGemma 54GB, Abliterated Qwen3.6-35B, Turkish LLM, RAG Stack

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NuClide Research · 2026-05-03


Summary

prometheus.fei.tuke.sk (147.232.40.80), Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics at the Technical University of Košice (TUKE), Slovakia, runs Ollama v0.11.11 with 24 models including two quantizations of Google MedGemma 27B (29GB + 54GB), an abliterated Qwen3.6-35B, a Turkish-language model (alibayram/erurollm-9b-instruct), and a full coding stack with RAG infrastructure. The version (0.11.11) is approximately 1.5 years old.


Infrastructure

FieldValue
IP147.232.40.80
Hostnameprometheus.fei.tuke.sk
OrganizationFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (FEI), Technical University of Košice (TUKE)
NetworkTUKE Slovakia (AS2607)
CountrySlovakia
Ollama version0.11.11
Open port11434 (public)

Model Inventory

ModelSizeCategory
google/medgemma-27b-it:latest54GBMedical AI (Q4), full precision
google/medgemma-27b-it:q8_029GBMedical AI (Q8), high quality quant
huihui_ai/Qwen3.6-abliterated:35b23GBAbliterated, safety RLHF removed
qwen3.6:35b23GBBase Qwen3.6 35B
qwen3.6:27b17GBBase Qwen3.6 27B
qwen3:30b18GBQwen3 30B
qwen3:32b20GBQwen3 32B
qwen2.5:14b8GBQwen2.5 14B
alibayram/erurollm-9b-instruct:latest5GBTurkish language model, 9.2B params (Llama)
alibayram/medgemma:27b16GBMedGemma 27B (alternative distrib)
gpt-oss:20b13GB20B local inference
llama3.3:latest42GBLlama 3.3 70B
llama3.1:latest4GBLlama 3.1 8B
gemma3:27b17GBGemma 3 27B
gemma2:9b5GBGemma 2 9B
gemma2:27b15GBGemma 2 27B
phi3:14b7GBPhi-3 14B
deepseek-coder-v2:latest8GBDeepSeek Coder V2
codegemma:latest5GBCodeGemma
codeqwen:7b4GBCodeQwen 7B
starcoder2:latest1GBStarCoder 2 3B
starcoder2:3b1GBStarCoder 2 3B
nomic-embed-text:latest,RAG embedding
smollm2:135m,SmolLM2 135M

Total local storage: ~420GB+


Findings

F1: MedGemma 27B: Medical AI with Exposed System Prompt (HIGH)

Both google/medgemma-27b-it:latest (54GB) and google/medgemma-27b-it:q8_0 (29GB) are running simultaneously, the operator deployed two quantizations of Google’s medical AI model. Both carry the extracted system prompt:

You are a helpful medical AI assistant trained on medical data. Provide accurate,
evidence-based information while being clear that you are an AI and not a substitute
for professional medical advice.

The medical system prompt is injectable via CVE-2025-63389. An attacker can replace it with instructions that remove safety disclaimers, redirect users, or provide deliberately incorrect medical guidance.

The presence of alibayram/medgemma:27b (a third-party MedGemma distribution) alongside the official Google variants suggests active medical AI research, potentially clinical NLP, diagnostic decision support, or medical text processing research in the EE/CS faculty.

F2: huihui_ai/Qwen3.6-abliterated:35b: Safety-Removed Model on University Server (HIGH)

huihui_ai/Qwen3.6-abliterated:35b has had its RLHF safety alignment removed. No system prompt present. Running alongside medical AI models on the same server, the coexistence of MedGemma and an abliterated LLM on the same unprotected endpoint is an unusual research stack.

F3: alibayram/erurollm-9b-instruct: Turkish Language Model (MEDIUM)

erurollm (9.2B params, Llama family) is a Turkish-language instruction-tuned model. The alibayram namespace is Turkish. Its presence on a Slovak university server suggests either collaborative research with Turkish partners (Atatürk University uses “ERÜ” as its abbreviation for Erzurum) or a researcher with Turkish-language NLP research interests. Not a security finding by itself, notable as a cross-institutional research signal.

F4: Active RAG Pipeline (HIGH)

nomic-embed-text is the embedding backbone for an active RAG pipeline. Documents indexed into the vector store (research papers, student submissions, course materials) are queryable via the unauthenticated endpoint. Combined with the medical AI stack, this likely represents a medical/clinical document retrieval system.

F5: v0.11.11: ~1.5-Year-Old Ollama Release (HIGH)

Ollama v0.11.11 dates to approximately late 2024, around 1.5 years old. CVE-2025-63389 (no patch exists) applies. The entire 24-model stack is injectable via unauthenticated /api/create.

F6: CVE-2025-63389 (CRITICAL)

All 24 models injectable via unauthenticated /api/create. The medical AI system prompt on both MedGemma variants is overwritable without authentication.


Remediation

OLLAMA_HOST=127.0.0.1:11434
systemctl restart ollama

Upgrade Ollama from v0.11.11 (current: v0.22.0+).


Disclosure

  • Discovered: 2026-05-03
  • Status: Pending outreach to TUKE FEI IT Security (tuke.sk)