This is a version of maven itself. You can check the version of maven installed on your computer.

mvn -version

If you need to use different version of maven dependencies you should add to your pom

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven</artifactId>
    <version>3.9.0</version>
    <type>pom</type>
</dependency>