Dependency with lower version number is chosen

My test application tries to create a spring org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext.

This fails because of a
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/beans/factory/support/ConfigurableBeanFactoryUtils

This class is included in org.springframework:spring-context:1.2.8 but not in version 2.0.6 which I am using.
Version 1.2.8 is a dependency for e.g org.apache.axis2:axis2-kernel.

Maven chooses version 1.2.8. Running with option -X one can see the line
[DEBUG] org.springframework:spring-context:jar:2.0.6:compile (removed - nearer found: 1.2.8)

Surprisingly if the cglib dependency in my test project is commented version 2.0.6 is chosen.

(The test project is called surefire-bug because I first thought it had to do with the surefire-plugin and was too lazy to rename everything.)