diff --git a/lib/linter/linter.js b/lib/linter/linter.js
index 1d021d1e82e7..9783f9d487be 100644
--- a/lib/linter/linter.js
+++ b/lib/linter/linter.js
@@ -393,7 +393,9 @@ function getDirectiveComments(filename, ast, ruleMapper, warnInlineConfig) {
                         }
 
                         try {
-                            validator.validateRuleOptions(rule, name, ruleValue);
+                            const cloneRuleValue = lodash.cloneDeep(ruleValue);
+
+                            validator.validateRuleOptions(rule, name, cloneRuleValue);
                         } catch (err) {
                             problems.push(createLintingProblem({
                                 ruleId: name,
@@ -584,10 +586,17 @@ function stripUnicodeBOM(text) {
 /**
  * Get the options for a rule (not including severity), if any
  * @param {Array|number} ruleConfig rule configuration
+ * @param {string} ruleId rule id
+ * @param {Object} rule rule schema
  * @returns {Array} of rule options, empty Array if none
  */
-function getRuleOptions(ruleConfig) {
+function getRuleOptions(ruleConfig, ruleId = "", rule = {}) {
     if (Array.isArray(ruleConfig)) {
+        if (ruleId !== "" && Object.keys(rule) !== 0) {
+            const cloneRuleValue = lodash.cloneDeep(ruleConfig);
+
+            validator.validateRuleOptions(rule, ruleId, cloneRuleValue);
+        }
         return ruleConfig.slice(1);
     }
     return [];
@@ -892,7 +901,7 @@ function runRules(sourceCode, configuredRules, ruleMapper, parserOptions, parser
                 Object.create(sharedTraversalContext),
                 {
                     id: ruleId,
-                    options: getRuleOptions(configuredRules[ruleId]),
+                    options: getRuleOptions(configuredRules[ruleId], ruleId, ruleMapper(ruleId)),
                     report(...args) {
 
                         /*