diff --git a/audb/core/api.py b/audb/core/api.py
index 1083e32e..a2720273 100644
--- a/audb/core/api.py
+++ b/audb/core/api.py
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ def dependencies(
         try:
             deps = Dependencies()
             deps.load(cached_deps_file)
-        except (AttributeError, EOFError, FileNotFoundError, KeyError, ValueError):
+        except Exception:  # does not catch KeyboardInterupt
             # If loading cached file fails, load again from backend
             backend_interface = utils.lookup_backend(name, version)
             deps = download_dependencies(backend_interface, name, version, verbose)
diff --git a/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/.gitignore b/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1558c17b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+venv/
+db.csv
diff --git a/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/README.md b/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6888c790
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Dependency table pandas compatibility
+
+Since version 1.7.0 of `audb`,
+we use `pyarrow` dtypes
+inside the dependency table
+(`audb.Dependencies._df`).
+The dependency table
+is still stored in cache
+as a pickle file.
+When loading the pickle file
+with a different `pandas` version,
+than the one used to store the file,
+an error related to the `pyarrow` dtypes
+might be raised.
+
+To test this,
+we store an example dependency table
+from the `emodb` dataset
+as pickle file
+using different `pandas` versions
+as test assests.
+
+The pickle files,
+stored in this folder,
+where created by running:
+
+```bash
+$ bash store_dependency_tables.sh
+```
diff --git a/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/emodb-pandas-2.0.3.pkl b/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/emodb-pandas-2.0.3.pkl
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diff --git a/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/emodb-pandas-2.1.4.pkl b/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/emodb-pandas-2.1.4.pkl
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diff --git a/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/emodb-pandas-2.2.2.pkl b/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/emodb-pandas-2.2.2.pkl
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diff --git a/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/store_dependency_table.py b/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/store_dependency_table.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..59941e81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/store_dependency_table.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import argparse
+
+import audb
+
+
+def main(pandas_version):
+    """Load dependency from CSV and store as PKL file.
+
+    Args:
+        pandas_version: version of installed ``pandas`` package
+
+    """
+    # Download emodb dependency table
+    # from version 1.4.1,
+    # which is still stored as CSV file
+    repository = audb.Repository(
+        "data-public",
+        "https://audeering.jfrog.io/artifactory",
+        "artifactory",
+    )
+    backend_interface = repository.create_backend_interface()
+    remote_file = backend_interface.join("/", "emodb", "db.zip")
+    with backend_interface.backend:
+        backend_interface.get_archive(remote_file, ".", "1.4.1", verbose=False)
+
+    deps = audb.Dependencies()
+    deps.load("db.csv")
+    outfile = f"emodb-pandas-{pandas_version}.pkl"
+    deps.save(outfile)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # Call the program with:
+    #
+    # $ python store_dependency_table.py 2.2.2
+    #
+    # where 2.2.2 refers to the installed pandas version.
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("pandas_version")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    main(args.pandas_version)
diff --git a/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/store_dependency_tables.sh b/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/store_dependency_tables.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..50b1e503
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/assests/dependency-table-pandas/store_dependency_tables.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# This stores dependency tables of emodb
+# as pickle files
+# for different versions of pandas
+# to test compatibility
+audb_version="1.7.2"
+python_version="3.10"
+for pandas_version in 2.0.3 2.1.4 2.2.2; do
+    rm -rf venv
+    virtualenv -p "python${python_version}" venv
+    source venv/bin/activate
+    pip install "audb==${audb_version}"
+    pip install "pandas==${pandas_version}"
+    python store_dependency_table.py ${pandas_version}
+    deactivate
+done
diff --git a/tests/test_dependencies.py b/tests/test_dependencies.py
index a4079b29..2f24d016 100644
--- a/tests/test_dependencies.py
+++ b/tests/test_dependencies.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import os
 import re
 
 import pandas as pd
@@ -8,6 +9,7 @@
 import audb
 
 
+CURRENT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
 ROWS = [
     {
         "file": "db.files.csv",
@@ -326,6 +328,56 @@ def test_load_save_backward_compatibility(tmpdir, deps):
     assert deps == deps2
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("pandas_version", ["2.0.3", "2.1.4", "2.2.2"])
+def test_load_save_pandas_compatibility(pandas_version):
+    """Test pandas backward compatibility of pickle cache files.
+
+    Dataframes using pyarrow dtypes,
+    and stored as pickle files
+    might fail to load
+    if the used ``pandas`` version
+    does not match.
+
+    Test which ``pandas`` versions raise errors
+    when loading deps from pickle files.
+    We have to except those errors inside
+    ``audb.dependencies()``.
+
+    See Also:
+    https://github.com/audeering/audb/issues/418
+
+    Args:
+        pandas_version: the version of ``pandas``
+            used to store the dependency table in cache
+
+    """
+    deps_file = audeer.path(
+        CURRENT_DIR,
+        "assests",
+        "dependency-table-pandas",
+        f"emodb-pandas-{pandas_version}.pkl",
+    )
+    deps = audb.Dependencies()
+
+    # Dependency table cached with pandas==2.0.3.
+    # Loading with pandas>=2.1.0 leads to a ModuleNotFoundError
+    if pd.__version__ >= "2.1.0" and pandas_version == "2.0.3":
+        error_msg = "No module named 'pandas.core.arrays.arrow.dtype'"
+        with pytest.raises(ModuleNotFoundError, match=error_msg):
+            deps.load(deps_file)
+
+    # Dependency table cached with pandas>=2.1.4.
+    # Loading with pandas==2.0.3 leads to a KeyError
+    elif pd.__version__ == "2.0.3" and pandas_version >= "2.1.4":
+        error_msg = "'_data'"
+        with pytest.raises(KeyError, match=error_msg):
+            deps.load(deps_file)
+
+    else:
+        deps.load(deps_file)
+        assert deps._df.index.dtype == audb.core.define.DEPEND_INDEX_DTYPE
+
+
 def test_load_save_errors(deps):
     """Test possible errors when loading/saving."""
     # Wrong file extension