The below workaround is meant to be a temporary solution until updates documented in the VMSA can be deployed.

The workaround is to remove all USB controllers from the Virtual Machine. As a result, USB passthrough functionality will be unavailable.

In addition, virtual/emulated USB devices, such as VMware virtual USB stick or dongle, will not be available for use by the virtual machine. In contrast, the default keyboard/mouse as input devices are not affected as they are, by default, not connected through USB protocol but have a driver that does software device emulation in the guest OS.

IMPORTANT:
Certain guest operating systems, including Mac OS, do not support using a PS/2 mouse and keyboard. These guest operating systems will be left without a mouse and keyboard without a USB controller.

The procedure for removing the virtual USB controllers for the affected products is as follows:

VMware ESXi:
Steps to remove a USB controller from a VMware ESXi virtual machine (87617)

VMware Fusion:
Remove the USB Controller

VMware Workstation Player:
Removing Hardware from a Virtual Machine

VMware Workstation Pro:
Removing Hardware from a Virtual Machine