A hardening tool is disclosed for producing hardened profiled shaped articles from a sheet steel material, which hardening tool has at least two tool parts which are movable relative to one another and between which a heated sheet steel material which has been preformed into a profiled shaped article and is optionally finally formed and is cooled in a hardening process, wherein the hardening tool has a mold core which, during the hardening process, is arranged in a recess of the profiled shaped article, and wherein the mold core has at least one outlet opening for the pressurization of cooling medium from a cooling medium duct on the profiled shaped article.