After digging deeper that I expected, I discovered the root of my problem. It turns out that there are two possible parameter types provided to the action handler and I missed the second type.
The following is the text from the SDK docs. The first type, with the esp_zb_device_cb_common_info_t ...

Hi all,

When I send a command using esp_zb_zcl_read_attr_cmd_req , for instance, the response is received by the registered action handler. What happens if I call esp_zb_zcl_read_attr_cmd_req multiple times to read attributes from multiple devices in turn. Say I have a bunch of lights and I want to ...