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It's not CentOS 3, it's CentOS with Linux kernel 3.10 (a 2014 kernel). This was supported in RHEL/CentOS through 2017.
Still very dated and a bad idea, of course. And even weirder that it's on a new machine. I've seen tons of stores using Win7 past it's EOL, but on older hardware.
Its 3.10.0-1160, which means it's CentOS 7.9 that was released at the end of 2020. It was a super old kernel at the time of release though.
RHEL 7 just ended maintenance support a month ago and there's 4 years of ELS before it's completely end of life.